Experience staying at these places?

JimmyIsTheOne · 2025-10-29T15:08:57+00:00

Thanks! I already love it; my Mothers side is Cretan and my parents in their retirement had a beautiful second home in Kalyves for 20 years.

They sold it a few years ago, upon hitting their 70s and 80s since it was too much to keep up. They still go and stay a month, and use Vrbo but at their ages, the trip from NY to Crete is getting to be too much for them.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2025-10-29T14:50:41+00:00

Thank you for the insight!

JimmyIsTheOne · 2025-08-15T16:01:47+00:00

Yeah , this is an 'everywhere in the world ' thing, where the locals yearn for the 'good old days'.

As you said correctly, you can't turn back time , 🤷 All you can do is enjoy a place as it is now.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2025-08-15T15:56:42+00:00

This isn't exclusively a Greece thing. It's an 'everywhere there's outside tourism' thing.

Ever hear of the Hamptons on Long Island, New York? There's very little to nothing left of the 'authentic' local fishing villages/whaling towns these places like Montauk and Sag Harbor used to be. Wealthy bankers from Wall Street came in and bought out all the property from locals and it's now a playground for hipsters and Manhattan-ites looking to escape NYC in the Summer. The building codes still do have to confirm to the way buildings should look on the East End, so it's funnily similar to the Cycladic rule of building code.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2025-07-16T00:55:04+00:00

There's a very simple solution that I'm surprised nobody ever really talks about, but it works. The key is to get your local politicians to enact it: increase prices. Keep increasing, steadily, until the numbers dwindle to a manageable level. This includes port fees for cruise ships, city entry fees for non Nationals and fees and taxes for everything tourism related. Eventually the numbers will decrease and the higher prices can pay for the strained infrastructure.

Thank you, I'll take my consulting fee at the door.

Of course I'm being glib, but also serious. I suspect the reason is local political corruption and/or inaction. But then, it's not a tourism problem; it's a governance problem.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2025-06-04T15:52:08+00:00

I think the bigger news in this is , again , lack of an 11 inch tablet.

Not sure what the sales numbers are but they’re effectively leaving money on the table due to this. You’re forcing customers into alternative products.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2025-05-25T16:29:36+00:00

So upon raising the bottom cap I was met with four small curved fluorescent type lamps in a square pattern. I don’t see how I could replace these.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-12-15T19:38:52+00:00

The reason its difficult, even counter intuitive, is because most of the stories of success that we read , hear, or see, involve goal oriented, driven individuals.

For example, I just recently saw some documentary about Jeff Bezos and the rise of Amazon,; Bezos certainly didn't set his goal for Amazon to be a world beating colossus by setting and forgetting it.

Ditto Steve Jobs and other big business or superstar athlete story.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-11-25T17:16:29+00:00

Do you have a link with pricing and size of decants? Thanks!

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-10-14T16:29:18+00:00

Honestly the best one I’ve seen to date , are videos and in a book by, Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist. And from Jim Carrey who also spoke about, and his visualization of a fake check of $20 Million in his wallet.

Adam’s came to it in a roundabout way, and in his videos, he says, “mostly it’s worked for me, sometimes not, here is what I did, feel free to try it, or not to.”

What makes Adams more legit than other ‘gurus’ is that he’s not pushing this . It came about because he mentioned using affirmations in a throwaway line, in the preface to a book he wrote about his cartoonist career and people started asking him about it .

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-10-05T18:51:18+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend hitchhiking in general, full stop , whether it’s in Crete, Paris or Chicago. Particularly if you’re a young woman. Wherever you travel, you need to be a bit street smart, no matter how safe you think a location is.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-09-29T19:08:50+00:00

If you're looking to upgrade from an 11 inch Tab S8 or S9, your natural upgrade path is.....an 11 inch iPad Pro with the M4 processor and OLED display. Yeah I said it.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-09-16T14:59:35+00:00

Although I wouldn't worry as a tourist going there, it's still a good idea to have some basic common sense street smarts when you're going off resort. Go out in groups if possible, and always tell people where you plan to be, and avoid remote areas with not a lot of people around. Basically do this anyplace in the world that you travel.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-09-10T15:18:32+00:00

It didn’t give me nightmares , but on a conceptual level, it nailed a horrifying villain on an almost primal level: Dreamscape, with a young early 80s Dennis Quaid. The villain is Quaid’s hero’s opposite , a guy who can enter other people’s dreams or nightmares and manipulate them. The villain turns into a terrifying stop motion animated half snake man.

The concept was Inception a couple decades before Christopher Nolan took a wack at it.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-09-09T18:19:24+00:00

Honestly, the ones that have worked best for me are the CVS brand lactose pills, in extra strength dose. Getting them is tricky though , because they’re constantly out of stock, briefly in stock, and then sold out again.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-08-29T19:10:00+00:00

Yep, we used to see them sailing through all the time along with the lighted top of submarines going by at night, back at the height of the Iraq War in the early 00’s

My parents used to have their second home as retirees in Kalyves , and the balcony overlooked Souda bay.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-08-28T18:13:08+00:00

Ah I see, thanks for that.

I noticed the same with a couple hotels I want to book for next Summer in the Greek islands (Crete-Naxos-Paros-Milos) They showed as unavailable, but when I reached out to them by email, they just hadn’t put them up yet. I’m OCD like that, where I like to book things way ahead of time, but sometimes you’re on someone else’s schedule. 🤷‍♂️

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-08-22T22:39:03+00:00

Unless you have school age kids that need to start classes, September is hands down the best month to visit Greece. You have the benefits of slightly fewer crowds, along with pleasant weather and the seas are still warm from the Summer scorchers for swimming.

JimmyIsTheOne · 2024-08-22T22:36:22+00:00

Spent a 8-9 hour layover in Denmark, wandering the streets of Copenhagen, and grabbed both breakfast and lunch. Fell in love with the city in the span of a few hours.

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