We got to Hania with no where to go and nothing to do, so we walked around with our backpacks. I ate snails in the market, and we cruised around the tourists shops until an old man told us directions to the bus stop, which turned out to be directions to the beach and that was just fine with us. We ended up staying at a hostel and then cruising around Hania more the next day until we flew back to London. After sleeping in Gatwick airport again we hit up the museums of London. We ended up spending much of our day in a Chinese restaurant sipping tea and watching the rain, which was perfect given our exhausted state. I got my fill of Laksa, and coke made with real sugar, and we made our way to Heathrow to sleep. After waking up to friendly policemen, we checked in and flew Heathrow-Boston-Cincinatti-Phoenix flawlessly, where we were picked up by Maxie's lovely sister Molly, and fed Watermelon Eegees.

After all this traveling I only managed to loose a camera, some headphones, a hat, some shorts, my sunglasses. All i can do is hope that someone is using these things. Now I am relaxing very effectively in my dad's house cooking good food (although too much usually), reading, sleeping, mending, preparing, jamming, recovering, and cleaning hermit style.

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July 19
We got to Hania today after quite the voyage of sleeping in ports, ferry's, and buses. We had to say bye to our Dutch friends Noortje and Sarah, with which we shared the last week of adventuring.
Our last day on Santorini was a lot of fun. We rented quads and rode all over the island. We went to the red beach, and watched the sun set from the southern point at the lighthouse. The best part of this last day, however, was Tranquilo, where we ate every meal. It is a super relaxed beach bar serving really good vegetables and jamming the most relaxing covers of all sorts of songs. Eating here really brought the relaxation over the whole day because of the vibes radiating from it.

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July 18
We left Santorini for 2 days to go to Ios. At Ios, we took the shuttle to the camp ground called Far Out, which is a massive campground with an estimated population of 300, mostly Australian. Ios was a constant party. When we arrived there was partying, when we slept there was partying, when we woke up, we were on the beach. It is about a 30 minute walk from one edge of the peopled part of the island to the other.
Maxie turned 18 while we were on Ios, and we celebrated with an amazing meal of seafood at the end of the beach with an awesome bunch of friends which you would just have to meet to understand. I tried mussels, and squid head, both of which I liked. Down town there was a bunch of guys jamming on guitars in the middle of the square singing English songs in broken English. They played some Marley which got everyone in the square singing.

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July 15
We have been on the island of Santorini for 3 days. while here we got a tour of an active volcano in German from our awesome friend Ingmar. We learned that the volcano was responsible for one of the biggest eruptions in history known as the Minoan eruption because it may have leveled the Minoan civilization. We also learned that the school books are wrong and the earth is not full of molten lava at it's core. We swam in warm springs full of sulfar and covered ourselves in orange mud.
We got our Mediterranean sunset on form the roof of an abandoned building.

We have been cruising around the town of Rethymnon for 3 or 4 days now. It is a good place to be with amazing Greek food at every corner. At most meals we have been lucky enough to enjoy amazing tzatziki (yoghurt, garlic, cucumber). Last night we had a big old family dinner for the crew from the hostel. We ate moussaka (which is a lasagna like substance with mince, and vegetables), calamari, vine leaf wraps, lamp, pork, chicken, saganaki (fried cheese), and other things i don't remember. It was a great experience especially with the stories that spilled. I am taking many a mental note so i can recreate the food i find for whomever will eat it!

I am now on Crete. I wrote up a big old post to post when in Roma, but the internet device malfunctioned and i didn't feel like rewriting it. So basically, to sum up Roma, it was mighty beautiful at night, and we decided that we are very good at people watching and picnicking. We held picnics in the Colosseum, Pompeii, Vatican, and assorted gardens and grasses all over Roma. We also have had good experiences with food when eating out even thought not eating wheat in the country of Italia is very problematic. The flight to Crete was seamless, and we stayed that night in Heraklion, and are now in Rethymnon which has no decided English translation. The locals and fellow travelers here are all super fun.
Greek food so far has been great. Lots of olive oil and great meat, with plenty of vegetables. There is all sorts of bootleg wine and liquor for sale in the streets. Over all the food is tasty and uniquely Cretan and good, as long as you watch out for the locals that will attempt to swoop you in from the street and feed you their raki, which is a grape fire water of sorts. The beach is treating us well.  I think we'll make it through this one.