24/6/2010 Today we took the local bus to Lindos to stay the night and return to Rhodes at our leisure the next day. We had accommodation booked but when we arrived at this extremely busy crowded small town no one knew where our accommodation was! The tourist office had had their phone disconnected (they had not paid there bill) the public phones only take cards (Aus $7 seem a bit of a waste for one local call), however we eventually enquire at a travel agency a...

24/6/2010 Today we took the local bus to Lindos to stay the night and return to Rhodes at our leisure the next day. We had accommodation booked but when we arrived at this extremely busy crowded small town no one knew where our accommodation was! The tourist office had had their phone disconnected (they had not paid there bill) the public phones only take cards (Aus $7 seem a bit of a waste for one local call), however we eventually enquire at a travel agency and...

23/6/2010 We arrived at the wharf for a boat trip to Symi, an island close to Rhodes. The ferry is one of the slower ones that also takes cars and trucks and was quite full - at least 300, quite a few Greek tourists and some other bus groups. Anyway it got quite blowy and the swells came up and the Greek old women sitting next to us started throwing up - went on for at least an hour, quite noisy luckily it was windy so not too smelly. Di could not look and had he...

Rhodes 21/6/2010 After a short 35 minute flight from Heraklion we caught a cab to the hotel. The hotel is in the Old Town and this seems to present a problem - we travelled for 15 minutes along the coast lots of huge resorts Sheriton, Hilton etc in high rise buildings, (we have not seen high rise since Athens). On the edge of the city wall we are left to be transferred to a golf buggy for a free shuttle to the hotel. The Old Town is basically all walking streets...

A swim before breakfast and then we were on our way to Hania, the original capital of Crete. On the way we stopped at Armeni where there is a Minoan cemetery only discovered by a farmer in his olive grove in 1977 - small to very large graves dug along a stepped path into the stone hillside a little like the early tombs in Egypt in the Valley of the Kings. On for picnic lunch at Gerani a very small beach frequented by locals, only a parking area, a small church an...