Crete

We returned last Sunday from a week's holiday on Crete. It was all in all a very successful trip except for the fact that my wife had to go and see a local doctor immediately after the arrival. It turned out she still had an ear infection. The doctor prescribed her with another round of antibiotics.

The hotel had an excellent outdoor area for kids including big lawns, orange trees and a children's pool. Luckily we had the in-laws with us who helped out a great deal running after our youngest kid. He was just all over the place.

The weather was pretty good except perhaps the day we arrived. There was a chilly wind from the sea and I started regretting I had only packed shorts and t-shirts. Luckily it got warmer the next days.

We rented a car one day and took off into the mountains. There is lots of nice nature on the island and orange trees everywhere it seemed. Our youngest was more interested in using oranges as football instead of eating them. In the evening we left the kids with the in-laws and drove off to the city of Chania. It happened the be the night when Champions League quarter finals were on. There was a TV screen showing football in every single pub and café down town Chania. My wife was kind enough to let me pick an ice-cream bar where they showed Manchester United.

On the medical front very little has happened. I was supposed to have a CT scan on Friday. While waiting at the hospital a nurse came to tell me the CT machine had just broken down. There is another machine at the hospital but it was so fully booked that they had to reschedule me. I got another time two weeks from now.