Vantaris Palace Chania

... lashings of olive oil (hand pressed by an old lady in Argyroupoli). <br><br>On the Beach<br><br>On Wednesday we decided to visit the ancient sites of Phaestos and Gortys south east of Rethymno, with a brief stop at Matala to check out the beach. Matala is on the south coast of Crete and not as popular with the mass tourist markets, although it was popular with hippies in the 60s - Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens holidayed there. It proved ...

... not. We were parked there for nearly three hours and no one bothered us except for a Scandinavian drunk, who looked like he did not know where he was &#8211; all he seemed to want was somewhere to lean before he flew away (or was denied travel). Their plane was late but we left the airport around 11.30pm and the drive back to Platanes went quickly, and without a hitch or a detour. Chris and Milly went to check out the nightlife and we went to bed.

... I have been most excited about.<br><br>The Samaria Gorge is the longest natural gorge in Europe (9 miles, I think?) before ending at the ocean on the southern coast of Crete. It felt like longer than that, but perhaps that was because of the rocky terrain, which kept our eyes firmly on the ground as we descended from the top of the mountain to the level part of the gorge. The hike was absolutely gorgeous--gorges (we're hilarious...). Taking the 7:30am bus was ...

... stores with an underwhelming waterfront. We were glad in a way that we had gone though, if only to affirm that Chania was the best city to stay in. We got back to Chania for another late dinner -people eat so freaking late in Europe...I even saw a woman in sequinned booty shorts pushing a baby carriage around 11pm. Anyway, we went to bed early, but still dead tired, to get up for the 7:30am bus to Samaria Gorge.<br>

... a while but I am really ready and looking forward to it! Flying into Vancouver next wednesday then somehow getting over to Victoria where will meet dad, Lena and Karen then on friday mom is arriving! oh man it is going to be so much fun! then on sunday we are all flying home together! Which I think is really nice!<br><br>So thats about it have to get out in that sunshine to keep up my dark tan ;-)) Life is so hard!!!

... me thinking WIERDOOOOO- oh and yes he invited me to come to the beach with him- yeah thanks NOPE!<br><br>SO I fake going back to bed fake is me trying to fake myself back into sleeping I was pretending to sleep in order for my body to think I was and actually FALL asleep but nope just daydreamed about my terrible new book where this murderer is being called the new jesus and is trying to donate his heart to the daughter of the family he murdered- messed yes! so get ...

... arrived! with YES YUMMY chocolate breasts! yes I know strange but seemingly perfect to our strange situation of people from last year and a new mistmatch of people from this year and previous years! OH and by the way the boobs were DELICIOUS!!!!! YUMMM!!! In the next few days Julia the crazy German pronounced YULIA will be arriving! and perhaps Marcus who last year showered me in rose petals while I was sleeping (not creepily might I ad!) SO almost the whole ...

To my little sister<br><br>- And jealous? :p Oh we really should have brought Ollie with us - so many cats to play with! What do you think mum &amp; Babe would think if I brought one (Cesar) home? *g* Lots of love from sunny Crete<br><br>Sis &amp; Eve<br><br>~*~<br><br>To Tini<br><br>-As promised a card from our next destination. Still on crete but 2,5 hours further on ...

... sitting here :o) It took quite a feet to get here though. I Malame we had to wait at leats an hour for our bus. Every busdriver that passed in a bus said "the next bus!" We wondered if we ust imagined reading about the bus to Kastelli. We wlaked to the next bus station when - finally- a helpful man from the bus told us it wouldn't be here for another 20 minutes. <br>

... rain. And we had to stop the car once so I could move 2 very small baby lambs from the middle of the road where they were sleeping. Good thing - a giant truck rounded the corner right after that. But we made it. And the sun was out and Germans were grilling themselves in the sun. And the beach was perfect. A perfect way to end our perfect time in Crete.