Greece Day One

0Josh • 22nd Oct 2006 • blog entries, travel

We arrived in Chiana Greece late last night, and were met at the baggage claim by our cab driver, holding a sign with “Lydia Rogers” on it… It was great, as I at least had been concerned about the process of hailing a cab and letting them know where we were headed.  As after all, this is greece, and not only do we not speak greek…we don’t read their alphabet either.  Everyone here has been more than hospitable.  We took the bus to Remnthyon today, not far.  And walked around the Venetian ruins, complete with a church and a mosque, and beautiful views of the Aegean sea.  We then walked around the old city,  narrow streets of mostly pedestrians, with the items for sale spilling out of the shops and into the street.  I had an authentic Gyro Pita, and Josh had a Slavaki Pita.  I had a nice chat with an elderly lady in a residential alley right off the market area.  She greeted me warmly and asked several times in several different ways if I spoke any greek at all.  “Lingua Greco?”  pointing to her tounge.  Sadly I had to say no….she good heartedly laughed at me and we were on our way.  Despite weather reports of flooding on Crete late last week the weather here is beautiful-better than I expected, there aren’t any signs that there was heavy rain recently.  I will definately make use of the pool this evening.  All the Best! Lydia and Josh