Airport day, for real! Yippee!! And no Alessandra this morning! :) The wonderful woman on duty did her job, too--took the key, checked the computer, confirmed on the books, made sure we paid, and THEN SAID, "Ok, you're all set!" THANK YOU, lady!
Flew from Venice to Athens to Heraklion, and we are now 7hrs ahead of everyone at home. This was probably the easiest bus and hotel route we'd had so far! And the driver knew right where we were going. What a relief! The room was nice, clean, and had air conditioning! The attached restaurant is where we could have breakfast in the morning, and we decided to eat there when we arrived and got settled. Fried zucchini and tapas, chicken with rice and veggies. Pretty good! Alexander (server who we hung out with all week, haha... what a cute little old man!) brought us a fruit/cake/jello thing for dessert and a small carafe of some type of liquor... he called it "huraki" and said he made it. And it was on the house! HOLY SHIT will that stuff put some hair on your chest!! Hot damn! Of course, Clare took it down like a champ with little complaint--so proud of her. I, on the other hand, thought it was the end of my life. We saw similar alcohol in stores later, called ouzo and it is 80proof. If any of you ever try it, let me know... you will not believe I even took a shot of this stuff!! Goosebumps for the rest of the night, for sure.
Whew! What a day! Welcome to Greece!!!!!!
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