- England
- Paris
- Brussels
- Amsterdam
- Berlin
- Dresden
- Prague
- Vienna
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- Athens
- Crete
I'm writing this from our small hotel on the beach on the Greek island of Crete. You can google it, we found it on TripAdvisor, it's called Hotel Caretta Beach. We're maybe one of five groups here. A 45 minute taxi drive from Chania airport and we are what feels like the middle of nowhere. It's a really tiny town, about 100m down the road each way is a small market. There's another, slightly larger hotel next door where we've been going for lunch, cause they have a menu and ours doesn't do lunch. Caretta Beach is run by two women and apparently caters to a German crowd. The welcome booklet is in German and English, the list of kitchen supplies in our kitchenette is in German, there's a few German channels on the TV, and the women who run it also speak German. There's one long bar that is the center of the hotel, we've never seen the lobby I don't think anyone is in it. You can order simple drinks and if you ask they'll make you a snack, like the Greek salad they made The Girlfriend when we arrived. Dinner is only one thing and they let you know what it is the day before or that day. Tonight was a nice beet salad and tomatoes with pesto as a first course, braised lamb with crispy chunks of baked potato and a warm cabbage salad, and dessert was yogurt with honey. It's all delicious and feels way more homemade than the place next door which I appreciate, and for 3 courses pretty cheap. The beach is right there, we can see it from our room and I can hear the water right now while I type this. Today was pretty much eat, beach, eat, nap, beach, eat, and now maybe a game of rummy. We have two more full days of this. I'm ok with that. It's nice not running around trying to figure out how to meetup with a tour or find this monument or a bus, a subway, or a train. Right now is relax time, and try not to burn too much, already burned my upper back a little.
Next stop, Barcelona.
