Our day started with a wake-up alarm at 4am...yes, I said 4am. We had booked ourselves a flight from Athens to Crete for 9:45, and we knew it was going to take about 4-4.5 hours to get to Athens International from Meteora. It was a long drive, and hard to stay awake for, but we made it fine and it one-piece...even though I missed seeing a railroad crossing on the highway and hit it going 80km/h...that was the biggest bounce I have ever had in a car!
The night before, we did our sunset tour of Meteora, and it was nice. The sun was not really cooperating with us, as it had (and is still on Crete) quite hazy. The locals believe it might be the humidity, or some dust storms from Africa, but it doesn't matter to us – it is still hazy at a distance. We did learn some interesting facts about Meteora, in that hermits wanting to be closer to God and starve themselves of worldly pleasures, back in the 10th century, came to the area to make homes in the caves up high in the rocks. They had to learn how to rock climb from the locals, but eventually created these sanctuaries and grouped together with other hermits, leading to the creation of the monasteries.
Once arriving in Crete we hired a taxi and went to our hotel, Kronos Hotel. After quickly settling in we went for lunch, and made our way to the bus station to take a 20 minute bus to one of the local beaches, Arita Sand. We spent most of the day there, until about 7pm, with me listening to Harry Potter on audio book, and Lindsay reading The Undomestic Goddess and then made our way back to the hotel to shower and head out for dinner. It was relaxing time after a long start to the day.
Glad to see you reading a book. It must have been nice to relax a bit. You guys have been very busy!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the book - it's really good! We are moving a lot so we don't get too much time to relax, but there is so much to see! We'll have more time to relax on Santorini...we think...
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