- Best page about Samaria Gorge
- His list of walks
- new online mag for Heraklion Not ready yet.

- Teaching Jobs - Contact PALSO (Panhellenic Association of Language School Owners) and submit your CV by email, or post on the notice board at your local PALSO office.
- a school http://www.kissamos.com/argyropoulou.html

- Conference next year http://utopia.duth.gr/~xirot/science_against_religion/science_against_religion.html may 2011

- Probably the most popular area for expats to move to is between Chania and Rethymnon, in an area known as the Apokoronas - Kissamos Expats

- Sat - arrive in Heraklion
Saturday's minor disaster - walked for 2 hours to find hotel . The Tourist info was closed so we went to the cybercafe. The young crowd I was with went hostelbookers.com and went straight off to places 12Km away ... They are crazy surely you need to be in town to experience the history and to get to Knossoss ruins.
- I stayed back - The Camping was too far.. I walked 2 hours to find a hotel, but then I check internet again and I find there is an OK hostel 500m walk away which my crappy new Lonely Planet doesn't mention. The internet forums really slagged it off ... but it was OK and there only 3 of us staying there so we walked the city walls together. (Heraklion has a nice Venetion area, but Greek people have some strange idea these 300 year old buildings are not worth preserving since they are not "proper Greek" and have indiscriminately replaced many with 4 storey concrete family blocks)

- Sun - I went to Knossos the ruins of he 750BC Minoan King's palace .. Amazing to see the standard 700 years before the Romans ... Quality frescoes etc.
.. it was free

- Went Back to Heraklion and Archaelogy Museum . It was much better than normal Greek museums .. Even though there is only 1 room open due to reconstruction they had almost all the important objects on display ... Still mostly glass cases instead of the interpretive style so a little difficult to understand the history and culture.

Minor disaster - lose 30 mins when I try to complete walking the city walls, but go wrong way cos street twists around

- Monday rainy day. Set off to Rethymno, but didn't go direct, instead I went up to went to Anogia village in the mountains just below the snowline. To me a bit boring 20 cafes wirh men sitting around drinking coffee and beer instead of working.
- I guess they are accustomed to hire car tourists stopping off .. As they charged me €2 for a small tea.

- This season there is only a bus to Rethymno at 5pm so I just started walking/hitching. After 4Km I was at Assos village. Some ruins, friendly villagers, but not super interesting.

Rethymno ... it's pretty nice old Venetian town and the hostel is convenient and there is an International library yards away with free intenet so I was there most mornings;

- Tue - explored town (museum wasn't great)

- Wed - walked up a place called Mylli Gorge and then into an old village called Cromonastri
- (hitched down ..I have hitched 6 times so far, but only foreigners gives lifts ..the only time Greeks gave me a lift is when some young people who had been in the same shop as me)

- Thu - After library and lunch I setoff to get bus 5Km out of town to some tombs at Armeni.
Thursday's minor disaster - The day's last bus was incredibly early and I missed it by 2 minutes.
- Yes the day's last bus was at 2:15pm and I arrived at 2:17pm - So plan B.. I knew the university was half way so I tooka bus there. There was a hell of a lot of anarchist vandalism. I walked for 3Km a village and found a war museum run by some crazy old Greek guy ..village people often seem to speak German more than English ..so I spoke to him in German ..then later I was speaking French again as I hitched down with French people.
- 1Km furtther I ws at archaeological site ... A tomb complex similar to ancient Egyptian valley of the kings in design, but much smaller. It was after 3pm so of course it was closed .. Butt the notice said it was closed in the morning anyway due to the national strike. I climbed over the gate and went in a few of the bathroom sized tombs.

- Walked 2Km up tp Armeni village ... Nothing to see .. No bus back so hitched

- Someone left a phone charger like mine that blew up at the hostel ..so maybe the manager might let me have it

Friday - walked west - but not much to see. Just a cave chapel with a German down and out living outside.

- stomach has some blood, but it's almost nothing ..will buy some tablets if it flares up

- plan to go to Plakias Saturday them hike Imbos gorge and might do the more touristy Samaria gorge later

- I can see why the kids find the hostel cool - they find the older people strange .. well most were
.. I'll give it an extra day

- Sun walked - East to the old German gun emplacements - then west up to Sellia village. I'd really walked for far too much so I'll have to take a rest day before the 15Km coastal path.

- Mon - wind began - slept - walked to old mill - lost a lot of time trying to do a small thing on the internet.

- Tue - bugger I should have left yesterday ... Today cold and real wndy. Left 9am. 11am coffee near the tame guard dogs, 1pm lunch as I reached tarmac road at Korakas Beach, 3pm arrived at the fort of Frangocastello... It's nothing just a box shell of a building.

- Lucky I started to hitch the 6Km to the beginning of the Imbos Gorge and right away the German film cameraman from the Plakias hostel drove past and gave me a lift straight there.

Tuesday's minor disaster - rushed through the gorge when I didn't need to - The guide at the bottom told me the last bus left Imbos at 5.30pm. It was 3:30pm so I needed to do the 8Km in 2 hours. The gorge was stoney and sometimes only 2m wide.

I made it out at 5:22pm. My ankles were buggered. No bus came : turns out the bus is scheduled to leave Hora Sfalion at 5.45pm or even later as it waits for the boat so it doesn't reach Imbos untill 6.15pm. So I could have walked much slower.
so I hitched with Swiss lady driving so fast to Chania. Collected info and went to campsite I should have explained about my hammock .... she wanted €10 for a tent ... I got a caravan for €12