Just arrived in Rhodes today an hour or so ago. We got off the 14 hour ferry ride a little disoriented, but were met by an american girl who works at one of the hostels in town and she checked us in for tonight.
The hostel (Mike's and Mamma's) is really nice and really clean. Mike is the owner and is very talkative. He made us tea and gave us some greek salad on arrival. Our room is nice and the beds look very comfortable.
The ferry ride was great. We got to the port at 5:30am to make sure we got on the 6:30 boat and watched the massive ships dock. Then we slept for the first six hours of the cruise before going up on deck to relax in the sun.

We spent the rest of the ride in one of the crowded snack bars playing cards and listening to three men play traditional greek tunes on some instruments they brought out of nowhere. The atmosphere on the boat was great and the trip was quite relaxing, although we were a little dazed from all that time spent on the boat.
We aren't sure what we are going to do tomorrow or how long we are going to stay where we are, but our hostel is in the old part of the city and it is amazing. Lots of tiny winding lanes and a huge midieval wall surrounding it. I think we may stay another night becuase of the comfy looking beds and clean bathrooms with toilet paper! What a luxury!
Last night we stayed in a hostel in Iraklio so that we could catch the boat and it was not as nice as the one we are in tonight. Shaun had the pleasure of very loud sitar music played on a small tape recorder all night long... And the lack of toilet paper was a small problem as we only had one roll between the three of us and had to find it before going to the toilet.
We stayed in Crete a day longer than we expected because of the ferry schedule.
We had a lazy couple of days becuase of sore muscles from pushing the car. We had a major break down when the battery completely died and we ran out of gas.
None of the dials on the dash board worked properly, so we didnt know that we had no gas left and the car finally sputtered and died. We tried to push start it and attracted an old man and a crowd of little boys who all were eager to push the car to help. When that didnt work we started walking to a gas station. We found a taxi halfway there and he dropped us off, but wouldnt drive us back with the gas. The man at the gas station made us a funnel and gave us a wire to open the gas tank with and we walked back along the ocean to the car.
We put the gas in and gave the car a push start and started driving through the narrow, maze like roads until we got to a busier two way street and the car died again. In rush hour traffic. We pushed it through the intersection and down an hill, where it came to rest by a parking garage.
I walked over and found someone who spoke english and one of the guys that worked there brought out the jumper cables. We flagged down a car and got a jump start in the garage and once again had a crowd of random people looking into our car engine and commenting in greek to us about the state of it. One guy poured water onto the battery and a few stray dogs wandered by.
Eventually we made it back to the campground and the car hire place where the man and his mechanic fixed it for us, after telling us we are young and this is good for us becuase it makes us think.
We drove down the beach and found a pub to eat and relax at and then went back to sleep in our tents.
We went to the same pub again the next night and played a little pool and talked to the owner and waiters. They gave us some suggestions of what to see on the islands and which ferries to catch.
So there is the update for now and hopefully I can update this properly sometime soon.
Liz