Island Life

Today is our third day on Crete and it has been amazing. Every it's been sunny with a light breeze, the food is cheap and the beach is beautiful. As frosting on the cake, the place Meg found to stay is a "guest house", which despite being hostel priced was in fact a suite with balcony and kitchen.

Yesterday we headed down to the tourist stip with the plan of renting scooters but were rejected for not having adequete licensces etc... ready to give up we tried the place next door which did not have scooters, but for the same price handed us the keys to a small korean car. All they had was sticks and when I explained that I did not have a license with me and Meg only could drive autos the kindly old man at the rental counter simply shrugged, handed me the keys and said "Why not?"

We covered about a quarter of the island stopping in small towns for beach breaks and croissants. Having gotten a little lost having and having a tourist map with only main roads we were soon faced with a road that was more like a goat path and which lead over mountains. Echoing the advice of the kindly old rental man, we said "why not" and got our happy little Kia over the mountain and back to the beach.