Stavros, Crete

Rhodos to Crete

Greece march 28

our many thanks to Baki for hosting us and Ozlem for showing us around and making her famous turkish coffees. and to emre and his wife for hanging out with us -- lovely people all! and an amazing reflection of the hospitality of turkey.




if anyone was wondering about the overland part of this trip, it began on the overnight bus from istanbul and is continuing on the ferries.

3/28 monday

arrived in gorgeous rhodes in fine fashion on a crappy boat filled with mattresses at 11am. still very happy with the med. weather. only stayed one night in the famous medieval city, old town with psycho mike at mike and mama's pension. mama divorced mike but he still rambles on about anything and everything.

3/29 tuesday

took ferry (10 hours) next morning to Crete (via Halki, Karpathos, and Kasos) but not before seeing the eclipse on open water -- brilliant! - thought of our neighbor just to the south -- oriol and george in libya!!

Arrived in Sitia, Crete, found a nice pension w/living room and kitchen right on the bay. Ate snails at fab restaurant, as well as fresh grilled octopus and cuttlefish.

wed - sunday

few days later we took the bus across the island, stopping in iraklio, the capital for a night then finally making it to stavros, just north of hania (xania or chania). amazing small, remote, random village which we were greeted by godsend, freind spencer who is hosting us for a few nights in this spectacularly beautiful place. started on just a leisurely day hike, but ended up on a 6-hour mountain climb through stunningly unique terrain with no one around except braying mountain goats and sheep. incline was about 40 degrees throughout. swam in the cooling waters of the town beach after.

more to come - sarah and andy