Crete

We are now staying just outside the town of Chania, which is at the west end of Crete. We are staying in a small hotel right on the beach (see the photo of the view of the pool and beach from our balcony...yes, it's a rough life we are living right now!)

It is low to mid 20C, which we are finding more than warm enough. Last night at dinner, however, the waitress asked us why we were sitting outside when it was so cold! If this is cold, we don't think we could handle "hot".

We had a very interesting conversation with our cab driver in Athens yesterday (a conversation that took place while he was driving about 130 km/h and zipping in and out of lanes at top speed). He told us that the unemployment in Greece right now is closing in on 20%, people cannot afford to get married because no one has enough money to move out of their parents' house and that students who spend 4 years in university cannot get a job. While he was telling us this, a man and a woman on a motorcycle zoomed by going about 150 km/hr, neither one of them were wearing helmets. When we asked him if it was the law to wear helmets, the taxi driver said, "Yes, it's the law, but he has very nice hair. We would rather pay the 300E fine than wear a helmet." No income, but ready to pay a 300E fine to avoid helmet hair. Kids today!