Day 9 - Crete
The overnight ferry was interesting. The overwhelming smell of diesel fuel and fumes made staying out on deck hard to bear. The sleeping berths were really really hard and made sleeping almost impossible for me. The gentle rocking motion wasn't bad at all.
Once we got there (one hour late at 6am instead of 5am), I decided that I felt too old to keep staying in Hostels and really wanted to rent a car to drive around the island. ***** felt otherwise and since we were going to meet up with someone else, I figured I'd let him slum it and not try talking him out of it. Enjoy the rest of your stay and I'll see you back at the office.
Anyway, Chz and I found a cheap beachfront hotel in Rethymon overlooking the beach for only 20 euros each a night and rented a small car (Citroen Saxo) for three days for a total of 80 euros.
With keys in hand, we head off for a drive. The first thing that comes to mind is to try to meet up with ***** in Plakias and rub it in a bit, but we couldn't find him there. The drive was amazing with twisty narrow roads and steep drop offs making it a blast.
Plakias was a nice little town but it was windy as hell and we stayed off the beach for that very reason.
We continued driving towards Sfakion and then back up to Rethymon on some more wicked roads, many without guiderails and many with guiderails in seemingly pointless locations.
In my opinion, the car was a great idea. Anyway, more Crete tomorrow.
Once we got there (one hour late at 6am instead of 5am), I decided that I felt too old to keep staying in Hostels and really wanted to rent a car to drive around the island. ***** felt otherwise and since we were going to meet up with someone else, I figured I'd let him slum it and not try talking him out of it. Enjoy the rest of your stay and I'll see you back at the office.
Anyway, Chz and I found a cheap beachfront hotel in Rethymon overlooking the beach for only 20 euros each a night and rented a small car (Citroen Saxo) for three days for a total of 80 euros.
With keys in hand, we head off for a drive. The first thing that comes to mind is to try to meet up with ***** in Plakias and rub it in a bit, but we couldn't find him there. The drive was amazing with twisty narrow roads and steep drop offs making it a blast.
Plakias was a nice little town but it was windy as hell and we stayed off the beach for that very reason.
We continued driving towards Sfakion and then back up to Rethymon on some more wicked roads, many without guiderails and many with guiderails in seemingly pointless locations.
In my opinion, the car was a great idea. Anyway, more Crete tomorrow.
posted by Wally at 5:25 a.m.
4 Comments:
Leave it to Rob to include some highway engineering commentary about roadside safety.
I was wondering how long it would take before you and ***** parted ways...
so when we moving to europe!
also take a pic of your car while your doing something stupid in it.
it is a rental
Europe is amazing, if anything for the cars. A tiny little Citroen Saxo with probably a 1.1L engine is all you really need in a place like Crete where the longest straight bit of road is at most... 500m.
And don't worry there dude.. I have some barrel photos for ya.
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