Saturday, May 13, 2006

Chania, Crete

We arrived at Chania, a little fishing village in Crete after a 2 hour cab ride from where the ferry dropped us off. Ironically, it was the most bustling island we had been to thus far. It's a less touristy place so it was nice to be among the locals. We stayed at this cute bed and breakfast overlooking the harbor. After a day of unavoidable fighting and disagreements, we finally sat down to a nice dinner. That dinner was my salvation - sardines in olive oil, fried cod, pastitsio, spinach pie, squid stuffed with feta and tomatoes, and of course, saganaki. Then the really nice waiter, an older greek man with a moustache brought us some ice cream and a little pitcher of Cretean wine. It tasted like rubbing alchohol but I didn't care. After saying "yamas" which means "bottoms up" several times with the waiter, we were pretty pooped and ready to leave. I fed a cute cat my leftover sardines and we retired for the night. Oh, not before more gelato of course. Then we realized that our cute bed and breakfast was right on top of a really happening club on a Friday night. Oy. Hip-hop all night rattling the windows but I still managed to fall asleep, being the weary traveler I am.

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