Day 108

7:18
Crete:Greece

Tentacular Spectacular


This was our last day on Crete, and we stayed in Iraklion for just one night so that we could be closer to the airport for our 7AM flight. Yep, one last pre-dawn departure for the trip.

I had some grilled octopus for dinner. Octopus is pretty common in Greece, and it took me 18 days into the trip to muster up the courage to eat any. It was just like really dense calamari, I guess. The restaurant we were at seemed to have forgotten about our existence, so we hung out for about a half an hour after we finished eating. Once they finally cleared our plates, they brought us our free dessert (not uncommon in Greece). Most places give you small dessert plates or a few slices of watermelon, but this place brought out huge, fat puffies like cream puffs minus the cream and 4 fruit syrups to dip them into. That's in addition to the typical watermelon and carafe of Raki.

Then we waited another half an hour to get the bill.