Cretian Times Day 2

25/08/2010
"Simon are you awake? Hello, are you awake?"
Well I am now. What time is it?
"7.00am"
Oh good!
"Let's have an early start. Don't want to waste any of our holiday" exclaims Mrs CT.
Not that we had an early start yesterday, off we march to breakfast. Anything to keep the peace. Suppose I can always grab a few hours on the sunbed. Nice beach at this time of the morning.


10:10 - Been sent to figure out how to use the electronic booking terminals (yes really) for the 5 separate restaurants they have here. Heaven forbid I am going to get to sit/sleep in the sun!


Table booked at Thai restaurant for Friday. The terminals come online at 10am each morning and unless you are in line at that time, your choice of eatery for the evening 2 days hence is limited to one. The queues were 30 long with not a smile amongst them. Hotel/Thomsons please note that holidays should be a good and positive experience and not a chore/bore in order to obtain your daily sustenance.

Having said that, lunch was excellent washed down with a bottle of local rose.

Now time for some sun and zzzs on our own terrace.......or that was the plan.....!


This is the only sun that we receive each day (on our own terrace that is) making the very comfortable but misnamed sunbeds obsolete. Not quite the value for money we had expected from a swim-up-room. Action required....
......"we are back at 15:00" says the note on the Sensatori Advisors office." Standby for a visit from Mr. T is what I say.

19:00 "we will ask the hotel if an alternative room can be found". Crikey that was an easy meeting. Let's see what happens!..... meantime a pint beckons from over the road


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Cretian Times Day 1

24-08-2010
Usual silly o'clock flight causing the alarm to rudely shrill at 03:00am.
Bags all packed and off we go.
Stansted at 6am an uneasy mixing of suits waiting for their day flights to somewhere not too far away and the holiday makers enjoying their first beer of the fortnight.


Onto the aircraft, which has seen better days, for a bum numbing 4 hours of children crying and loud chavs. Thankfully as this is a premium day flight, the latter are in short attendance.


Breakfast eaten and now settling down to a couple of hours of "How to Train your Dragon". Any hope of it being a quirky wildlife feature is quickly squashed by the squeaks of delight coming from our younger co-passengers.


Roll on Crete and the sanctuary of our private terrace, sunbeds and sleep...........

.......more tomorrow


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From the day I came off my motorbike at 17 I was determined to succeed in any future goal set by me or for me. Failing to achieve safely mastering a motorbike despite what Mum had told me was not going to beat me.

Determined to achieve my goals I set about a course of self-learning and improvement in subjects from cooking, building computers, training others in what I have learnt, all the way to qualifying to run a fleet of HGV's (nothing to do with my job)!

Challenging goals excite me. Bring on the next one.

Oh, by the way, I was knocked off my bike by a sleepy delivery driver that I could do nothing about so in reality my first goal was not a complete failure apart from the broken bike, leg and nearly mum's heart.

Life does have its idiots - just try to avoid them.