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We were met at the airport and installed in our houses. In the evening we went to 'Thea' and watched a presentation on 'Autumn in Crete'.

CRETE Tuesday 6.10.09	Breakfast on the plane	Entertainment
Monarch	Glimpse of Crete	Welcoming party
A bubble bath leek resulted in a lot of rinsing and drying	Cat at 'Thea'	Sunset at 'Thea'
I should have taken the pictures of 'Angeliki' before we spread our stuff around... All the rooms were on different levels with steps up and down each side of the doors. Not a house for the inebriated... fortunately the local wine is mild and seems to be safe enough in quaffing quantities. We had a visit from a 7cm. millipede, but otherwise intruders were small flies and unsporting silent mosquitoes or some other biting insect which we never actually saw.		Sitting area
End of the kitchen		Master bedroom
Spare room	Front door opposite double bed
The Cretan plumbing uses narrow pipes and so no loo roll could be put into the system in case of blockages. This causes remarkably little trouble. The shower had a treacherous sunken area rather too near the loo...

CRETE

Wednesday

7.10.09

View from the patio at Angeliki with our prickly pear in fruit. The sheep and goats came through the land around the house early every morning. The gates had to be kept shut to safeguard washing on the line... We let them have the carob beans.

Green mantis on the vegetation on the terrace

We met at 'Thea' for a briefing - view from the terrace

Brown mantis

Date Palm

Oleander

We stocked up at the Supermarket in Souda. The town seemed just the same as it was eighteen months ago; even the smells were the same and in the same place!!! Lovely to have really tasty tomatoes. Choosing coffee was difficult for non-Greek speakers.

We did some botanising around the car park, then took the provisions home to make up a picnic for the afternoon visit to Aptera.