{"id":44,"date":"2012-04-25T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2020-08-26T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T18:34:43","slug":"ethans-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/ethans-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan’s Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, we had a long day. We woke up at 2 am Athens time and hopped on a plane to Frankfurt. We went through that airport and then went to another gate and hopped on our second Lufthansa flight of the 34 hour day. When we arrived in Seattle, we went though immigration and got all of our bags from baggage claim before heading to the Avis place to pick up our car. The car was gray and shaped differently than most sedans. It looked almost sinister, hence its nickname. We drove for about 2 hours before arriving at Aunt ...
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Always alliteration. I seem to sometimes have knack for summarizing some of our day in my titles while making them alliterate. Not illiterate. In any case, we rode on the Aegean airlines today to get from Crete to the mainland. We didn\u2019t even have to wake up very early to do it!!! When we left the house, we drove for an hour along the northern coast of Crete to Heraklio. From there, we took the Aegean Airlines on their nonstop flight to Athens. When we touched down after only 40 minutes of flight time, we walked across the street to ...
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Today was mostly spent packing. Packing is always interesting, because it gives me a reason to reorganize my suitcase, which is nice because it is usually a complete mess. The case was similar to today, where I made my suitcase and its contents be nice, organized, and folded. Maybe not sorted by color, but you get the idea. When I woke up this morning, I had breakfast with the folks and then played Minecraft on the computer while my parents and sister went out to the doctor\u2019s office for a follow-up appointment to the one a few days ago. When ...
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The wind has almost always been present on the southern coast of Crete. Lately, it has been there, and we have been here for a while, so that has been half a dozen times. We went back to the beach near where we had spent the night a few days ago and set up our umbrellas. Our umbrellas have served us well during our time in Crete. This time however, my parents\u2019 umbrella didn\u2019t stay where they wanted it. It kept being blown inside out while the one that my sister and I were under stayed put. I was glad ...
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My dad is the driver. In Thailand and India, he thankfully didn\u2019t partake in any driving, but in every country since then except for Morocco, Chile, the UAE, and Chile. He has been the only one to drive on this trip except for once my mother drove for 10 minutes on an empty road in Australia. Today was no different from regular. My father drove the car and everyone else was in their usual rotation of seating assignments. We drove out of town and to the west. We went further than we have ever gone, past the road to the ...
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The beaches themselves are never blue, but most of the time, the water is. Today, we went to the beach. We went back to Saint Paul Sandhills and sat there for 2 hours. The beach itself was the same as always, sandy and nice. This time, however, the beach was cooler than most times, as in it was bearable to on which to walk. We chose a site for our nice umbrellas between some of the pink umbrellas that were already there and sat down. The wind picked up and made whitecaps appear. We sat around and didn\u2019t swim because ...
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It was, according to Apple weather, supposed to rain here in Crete today. It did not, though, but it was still overcast the entire time. This morning, my parents and my sister went off to the pharmacy to get some medicine, and I stayed home and played Minecraft, rejoicing in the fact that I was finished with all of my schoolwork for the next couple of months. When they got back, I vacated the computer so that my father could get back to working on pictures, as always. After a while, he asked Eryn and me to help him thin ...
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Today, when we woke up, we were (accidental alliteration again, and again) still on the southern shore of the beautiful isle of Crete. We ate breakfast and then Eryn and I played around on the computer that came with the apartment. We then packed everything into our bags and headed out the door. After leaving the house, we got into our Hyundai car and drove down along the beach. The waves were very large so we decided not to stay at our usual spot as it was covered in water. We continued on to the next beach and set up ...
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We have been to the south shore of Crete several time already. All of the beaches that we have blessed wtih our presence have been on the south shore of the beautiful isle of Crete. We are again at a beach on the southern shore, but this time for the night. My father got the idea of spending the night on the southern shore a few days ago, and made it happen. We are staying near the Agio Fotini Taverna, and a beach on which we have spent the afternoon several times. The beach is a fairly secluded beach, with ...
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Water is wet, and that is a fact. I know that from countless past swims in pools, waterparks, and lakes. Today I learned that simple fact again when we went to the Acqua Plus water park on the isle of Crete. We went there today because we figured that, since school is out here in Greece and in Europe, that tourists from the mainland of Europe will be flocking to Grecian isles like the one on which we are staying to enjoy their holidays. The park that we went to today is a large one. Eryn and I went on ...
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In case you couldn\u2019t tell by the title, today we went to a beach. We had tried to go to this beach before, but we couldn\u2019t find it. We drove for an hour down to the south coast and the drove on a dusty road to a parking lot. We found a fairly secluded part of the beach, put of the umbrellas, and worked on our tans through the reflection on the water. As the time went by, I waded out on some stone slabs and saw a snorkeler. Later, we saw a set of kayaks going one way and ...
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Some people, when they are annoyed at someone, say \u2018go jump in a lake!\u2019 If someone asked us to have done it this morning, we wouldn\u2019t have when we went to a lake this afternoon, even though we had a chance. This kind of reminds me of a poem that I had memorized a while back about a fat cat who sits that way every day just to say come out and play to the nice mice in the mouse house in the small hole by the hall floor. It is entitled, \u2018I wouldn\u2019t.\u2019 Back to our travels, not the ...
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Today we went back to the Frozen Yoghurt place in Rethymno. We woke up this morning and had a leisurely breakfast before hopping in the car (figuratively) and drove down into town. We left around 10:30 and arrived around 11. The first thing that we did was walk down a road towards a fountain. After a few blocks, we looked at a map and saw that we had passed the fountain a long ways back. We walked back and looked at the fountain, which only had 3 lion\u2019s heads. We looked at it for a while before going to the ...
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Tonight we went to Zizi\u2019s. Eryn might have covered the last time that we went there in her post a few days ago, because I know that I didn\u2019t cover it. In any case, we went back there today. Eryn might have mentioned cats, maybe even all 4 of them. Still, though, I will tell my own story of today. We went back to Zizi\u2019s and ate dinner. The title of my post isn\u2019t exactly about dinner, it is about the entertainment of the dinner. The cats were there again, and we all commented on what my father commented on ...
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So far we have been on Crete for almost 2 weeks. We have been to several beaches, several towns, several restaurants, and several historical sites. Of them all, we haven\u2019t been to many of the historical sites, but I think that I have been to enough beaches to say my favorite. Prior to our acquisition of umbrellas, I would definitely say that Saint Paul Sandhills was by far the best. However, after going there again yesterday, I think that it had too big of waves that time to keep it in the top. With our new umbrellas, most of the ...
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