Blogs from Crete, Greece, Europe - page 31

Hello to all, I need to get better at updating this more often, but it is hard because school has really picked up in a short amount of time. Last week I had long days of class. Some highlights included having a cooking class on Wednesday. We made grilled pitas and tzaziki sauce, greek salad, and meat. It was delicious, and I can't wait to make greek food when I go back home. Food here I have become addicted to includes tzaziki and grilled pitas, chicken gyros, and chocolate croissants. Ah, it is so good. The Greeks sure know how to eat. We have adapted fairly well to the Greek eating system, such as we now eat dinner much later than we normally would at home. On Thursday we had nine consecutive hours of class (it ... read more

Our 2-hour dash on the Cat 4 Hydrofoil was a bit harrowing. In contract to the smooth journey between Mykonos and Santorini, this leg of our trip was rough. Rose, despite her good doses of Gravol, was quite green by arrival at Kiraklion, Crete. Apparently the sea was very rough in that dark trip and we must have run through some squalls. Anyway, we were very grateful for our hotels that night. Most of these photographs were traken in Hiraklion, the capital of Crete. We later drove to Chania (pronounced 'Hania') and I'm confused as to where I took some of these monastery and museum items. ... read more

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 island, Spinalonga, which I had to settle for seeing from a distance. Of course maybe that’s best since it is the sight of a former leper colony. I guess at this point I will put ... read more

Hi all, Thanks to those who gave us feedback on the blog to date, awesome cheers. Thanks for getting the angels on our side Barb they have been used a couple of times already with sudden ferry ship evacuations at Piraeus port ( see a photo of the near last supper attached !!! ) Voyage eventuallly went ahead and we arrived to a stunner of an early morning in Crete Iraklion harbour see photo, enter angels again as we had major positive adventure and challenges with cab driver and rental car arrangements !! Where elese would you expect to find a new best friend in a near blind cabby who can't speak finding an address that doesnt exist. Crete lovely, villiage we are staying in stunning all the cliches of water colour and villiage, taverna locals ... read more

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. (Oh yeah you should know that road signs are sporadic at best so you really have to be prepared going out and ready to turnaround a lot.) Matala is about 100 km from where I ... read more