I arrived back in Athens on the 16th August and travelled by bus, train, bus and feet to a family friend's house to stay; recover and head back to Crete.
As soon as I slipped inside the apartment, all gloves were off:
OK Tina... you will now have a shower and when you finish you will sit down and eat 7 times your body weight before bedtime. I have every kind of food known to man in the fridge and by the time you shower and change into your jammies for the designated afternoon snooze, it will be laid out on the dinner table in front of you.
Hello!!!! All I want is a cup of tea and a biscuit.
You can have that after you eat everything on your plate.
Oh God help me!!
That conversation was repeated for two days until I was scheduled to leave on an overnight ferry cruise to Crete.
Overnight trips to Crete are actually quite lovely. You leave when all the lights at Piraeus come on and watch them fade in the distance as you set sail south. Then if you're lucky and have a smooth sea, 9 hours later you're heading into Souda Bay at dawn and watch the coastline in the dim light come into view. If you got up early enough you can be sipping a coffee from the many food stores on board whilst watching the boat dock and everyone offload themselves and their cars, trucks and packages that again look like loosely wrapped goats... hmmm!
I'm back home!
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