Well, I made my way back to Athens and then onto a flight to Rome. Athens to Rome is such a nice short flight, it took about an hour and a half, but there was still time for drama. Just shortly after we reached our cruising altitude some woman started yelling. She was speaking Italian so I have no idea what she was yelling about, but a couple of the flight attendants went running. The 3 of them were yelling back and forth and then the head flight attendant came walking down the isle. You could tell from her walk that [View Full Entry]

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Today I had to bid farewell to Elounda and all of Crete for that matter. It seems that every time that I have to pack it is getting harder and harder. I don’t feel like I’m acquiring much more stuff but my bag is getting harder to close; I hope I’m able to get it closed after Italy. I pretty much spent the day trying to find a few last little things to shove into my luggage and resting up for my ferry ride to Athens. It occurs to me that there are some observations about the island that I have [View Full Entry]

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I cannot believe that I have been on vacation this long. I’m not sure if I can go back to the working class. I think it might be time to revisit the idea of a sugar daddy (does anyone have leads?). Well after a nice relaxing massage and a moisturizing facial (I’ve gotten a lot of sun), I decided to wonder around a little bit. I headed north out of Elounda rather than the southern direction that has been my default. The reason that south is the default is because there isn’t much of anything north except for this really cool [View Full Entry]

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Well today was another low stress day in sunny Crete. I did some laundry (Bill will be so proud) and laid around at the pool. I spent the day in the sun chatting with a very lovely English gentleman. We talked about everything from American life to politics in the US and abroad. I immediately liked him when he told me that he was sad to hear that Hillary would not be President. He’s a retired gentleman that pretty much just travels around Europe, although he has been to NY a few times. It’s very interesting hearing about American politics and [View Full Entry]

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Well after going to the same coffee bar for a week, I decided to give it a shot in explaining to the waitress how I like my coffee. I stuck with a simple Americano but given the language difference it took a bit of time. In the end it is much better. It seems that at least here in Crete (every place we went to around the island had the same drink) that all iced drinks are whipped and not whipped with ice but with milk and espresso. It makes for a very frothy drink that I’m not really crazy about. [View Full Entry]

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Well, since Bill was gone I decided to take on an adventure that would eat up most my day. (I was much more successful at that than I had planned.) We never made it to the south side of the island so I decided to give it a shot. There are a couple of things that you should know here. First, there is no direct way to the south side of the island. Second, the main roads go from 4 lanes to 2 down to 1 with pedestrians everywhere so traveling anywhere takes a bit of time. I headed to Matala. [View Full Entry]

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Well today is that day that Billy Buddy left me. He must have been feeling a little bad or he will miss me, but he got up and cooked us a real breakfast with eggs and fruit and everything. There was no Nuttella anywhere on the table. It was a GREAT breakfast. Well, the morning started a bit slow since we took it easy, had a nice breakfast and then Bill had to spend some time packing. Once we got things figured out and Bill all set to go, we headed out to Knossos Palace. It was really cool to go [View Full Entry]

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Well we spent the day at a couple of different beaches, since Crete has tons of beaches. The beaches really vary quite a bit. We went to one beach that was very rocky with some ruins under the water. We did a little snorkeling. Billy Buddy claims to have seen some brightly colored fish while all I saw was very interesting but monochromatic fish. Who knows what he saw, colored glass?? The second beach is the type of beach you use for all of the postcards. It had mountains in the background, beautiful white sand, nice current and crystal clear water. [View Full Entry]

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After a much needed night’s sleep we slowly woke up and had a light breakfast (croissants with Nuttella, who know such a thing existed?). We went and got a car for the week. All they had right then was a “jeep” which as it turns out is a Suzuki Vatara. Once I got over being in such a little car and afraid of certain death it wasn’t so bad. (OK, I’m still not used to it.) We headed out to the Lesithi Plateau. We went down one road and ended up on another and got lost and then found and then [View Full Entry]

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Well at about 6 in the morning we made it to Crete. The day did not start off the best. It seems there was some confusion to our arrival time and there was no one at the dock to pick us up. It turned out ok. We had to wait about an hour but in the end it was no big deal. Elounda Beach is about an hour away from the dock. It was a nice drive. I find it very interesting how people drive in Greece. I noticed this in Athens as well. It seems that the lines in the [View Full Entry]

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