After an exhilarating and tiring four days in Egypt, Sarah and I spent a day back in Athens, mostly regrouping, and then headed out to Crete for the remainder of spring break! We arrived in Crete around 6am and waited at a passenger's center (nice building with a little shop and chairs) for about an hour when we decided we would be likely to find a bus. Our first destination was Rethymno, a little over an hour bus ride from Heraklion. We found the town without problem and got ourselves checked into the hostel. After freshening up a bit, we went for a walk around the town, which was really nice and incredibly familiar, since many small Greek towns are pretty similar- a nice welcome home-ish for me. After a few hours of walking around, we
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