Ups and downs are a fact of life, particularly when you're on the road, so I thought I should give you a taste of this bitter sweet fact by documenting our last few day’s events.
Firstly heading to Crete. It was an exhausting mission composed of two busses on Santorini to the ferry terminal; a 2 hour late ferry to Crete; a rip off cab ride 100m up the road on arrival to the bus station; a bus of unsure destination in the dead of the night across the island resulting in our being stranded in Sissi - a small, skanky, tank top wearing, 20 cm short skirt sporting, glow stick toting, budget cocktails named ' the head f*#ker' producing, general bad side of the Greek islands corrupted by tourists town where we tried unsuccessfully to hire a car to gain some control of our travels; and eventually gave in to another expensive cab ride to our little town of Milatos.
Milatos however was well worth the mission. We were offered a choice of apartments on arrival which for one blew us away as usually we're pointed to a room and that’s that, and opted for the very tasteful 3 b'room apartment with a deck with a beach view sheltered by palms. Yes sir!
We spent 4 beautiful nights there, cooking our own meals which is a treat for us, lounging by the pool, exploring the lovely beachside township almost totally devoid of other tourists, and Crete in our zippy little Chevy rental car, and drinking one day away with some Essex expats with a collection of reptiles in their
apartment that would put Wellington Zoo to shame. No shit, they had 16 snakes, a few lizards and a cane toad - one of the boas was 15 feet!!We meet these critters when we were half boozed (and expecting his boasts to be half hot air) and instead were blown away. I got some excellent photos of us snuggling them. Andy looked awfully Cleopatra like with his little snakey curled around his wrists, sorta like that princess babe in Conan.
Any who, we loved it there, I can honestly say it was the best accommodation so far and we were sad to leave. But exciting too, because as far as we know we were heading to Turkey the next day....we were wrong.
After a 12 hour ferry ride (supposed to be 10), a 75 euro cab ride that was not planned for in our meagre budget, after the planned 10 euro bus never arrived (as they don’t run on Saturdays, and the website timetable doesn’t bother to mention this!), which followed our prearranged cab driver demanding extra money for no decent reason and succeeding as we didn’t have the correct change we arrived in Rhodes. Straight away we were struck by the place and upset that we didn’t have any days planned here. Fate intervened however in the morning when our ferry was cancelled and we had to spend the next day regardless. A good turn of events!Woohoo
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