Rethymno Old Town

Megan, Mara And Natalie making welsh cakes

 The caravan did not become our home for the whole time here, we exchanged homes with our Helpx hosts, they moved into the caravan and we moved into their town house, on the edge of the ‘Old Town’ of Rethymno, the dogs have left behind lots of the ‘friends’ to keep us company – oh joy!  Each place is good, the caravan was peaceful but the house gives us taste of living with the Cretens.

Our ‘work’ has been much the same – finished the snake pit and the Creten snakes moved in and are still there, result!  Fixed up another and one of the large pythons had to move in after not sharing the food, bad lad or lass I can’t tell the difference, must be getting old, do snakes have hips?  Anyway he (?) had two small chickens not just the one allotted and was moving for more apparently – this all happened when we weren’t there, another negative for living in the town – but we can see the movie.  Also been putting up the shades Megan has been repairing, all ropes knots and pulleys and long discussions with Michali about tension etc.

Old Town Doorway

Rethymno Sunset from the nature park

On one of our days off we walked the famous Samaria gorge with our fellow helpx helpers Natalie and Mara, 12.8km all downhill, hell on the calf muscles, but it was stunning, beautiful, amazing, the company was great we all had a fantastic day.  We have also enjoyed meeting other helpers 

 

Enough of that, only one week with our hosts then my brother, Mark arrives with Raewyn and her father, John, from Oz and we have a holiday, fours days on Crete, seven on Santorini and a few on Mykonos, with temp going up, currently about 30̊C, we are looking forward to it.  Then where – we’ll let you know.

Samaria Gorge near the end

How much weight have we lost

Samaria Gorge near the start