The Idiot isn’t completely stupid. He finally took a short break from his arduous and agonizing 8,403-kilometer MedTrek to leisurely and luxuriously sail on (instead of walk around) the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek island of Kos and Turkey’s Gulf of Gokova. The Idiot was a grateful guest on a 38-foot Sunsail catamaran
Time travel is easy for a MedTrekker. The Idiot left behind Crete’s intriguing world of Zeus’ caves, Minoan culture, gorge-ous countryside, an Academy Award winner and a hip archeologist by taking a ferry to Rhodes, the largest island in the Dodecanese archipelago in the eastern Aegean Sea. He was instantaneously transplanted to the
The Idiot was particularly careful, while MedTrekking through the notorious Gorge of Death near Zakros in eastern Crete, to conscientiously check out every cave, cranny, crevice and shadow. This was not because he had suddenly developed an interest in bats, bones and/or dead body parts (the gorge got its name because the
The Idiot didn’t come to Crete looking for sandy beaches. That was wise because Greece’s largest island features many more bouldery, cliffy, gravelly, mountainy, rocky, pebbly and stony (you get the idea) patches of seaside than strips of fine sand. [caption id=”attachment_2340″ align=”aligncenter”
The Idiot was recently told by the usually trustworthy goddess Athena that her father Zeus was definitely born in the remote and uncommercialized Idaian cave above the Nida plateau on Mount Ida in Crete (http://bit.ly/j9DYOo). But there’s academic, archeological and popular contention that the “king of all gods, men and the world”
“Follow The Idiot” readers have asked me a number of questions since I’ve been in Crete that merit short, crisp answers with a sentence, a photo and a caption. Here are Idiotic responses to the first ten: 1. How do you interact with normal tourists? I took a photograph of a contemporary French hippie
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