In Chios Town try the nice Hotel Diana.

In Mytilini Town – Lesvos you have this very nice option:

Hotel Lesvion

Although there is a long time since I visited Crete, I do know that these places still exist. Crete is a very difficult island when it comes to choosing places to stay and (especially!) places to eat…

• Iraklion: Hotel Lato
• Ag. Nikolaos: Hotel Doxa
• Hania: Hotel Palazzo

What Hotel to choose for your (walking or not) holiday? Well, there is plenty of good advice on e.g TripAdvisor, Booking.com, Hotels.com etc. But where I have stayed at some hotels I have found very good I will give some of those my personal recommendation here. For a walking holiday you will know that these hotels also are good choices wrt transport.

First out is Thassos – Skala Potamiás:

Hotel Miramare is a very comfortable hotel hidden away in woods behind the small port. Good value authentic Greek food for dinner every night if you want.

If you are interested in “classic” heavy rock you can have a look at something I wrote most of in 1998, and maybe today I would be heavily (oh yeah!) disagreeing with myself, but I am not going to change one single point! This to honor the spirit of the moment, and to keep the integrity and consistency of the original review, written after a twenty year long pause from Black Sabbath listening…

This blog was never meant to be about music (well, it was not meant to be about a lot of things…), but I just cannot resist recommending this new album from a master.

Get the Limited Edition signed by Steve!

View from Mark Webber’s F1 car at the European Grand Prix in Valencia today. Not the sort of view you would like from your car…

A couple of tips especially for older Macs. I have an old iBook G4 (MacOS X 10.4) that happily runs Opera 10.54 (it is even running Unite, and you can e.g look at my sharing of photos from Greece, see http://webserver.mrwalker.operaunite.com/photo_sharing/content/, i.e at least when the machine is actually ON…) and I can watch (sluggish) Flash and watch streaming on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK), if I want. Which I don’t. But it works. If you want.

If you have Flash 10.0 working DO NOT “upgrade” to 10.1. This is even more sluggish and might break other software.

If you have Flip4Mac 2.2 working DO NOT “upgrade” to 2.3. It brings DRM and might even sneak install Silverlight. AND could break your favorite browser.

Hopefully these “technologies” will become obsolete and die in some very near future. Steve Jobs might be right after all…

If you own an old PPC machine I would also stay with Opera 10.54. I highly doubt these machines will run any subsequent Opera release on a satisfactory level.

If you have read these pages over the years you will have noticed that there are little actual tourist information to be found here. Usually I only give some transportation timetables and list good eateries I have discovered. Once in a while I will also feel the need to warn against certain restaurants, but they will really have to “work hard” to accomplish that… Even more rarely, if I have stayed at some exceptionally nice place or hotel, I will give it my personal recommendation. Only a couple of times have I ever published pictures and other information about a hotel. This is about one of those. I “stumbled” on this little gem on the internet some time in 2001-2002. Carefully excavated (really!) from ancient castle walls in Rhodes Town. I think 99.9% (or so…) of people staying here will remain a friend for life. You can also refer to TripAdvisor on this one. This is also one of the smallest hotels in the world, at my first stay in 2002 they only had 3 rooms. A very special place, and if you ever stay here, you will also be a very special guest.

Find Camelot Hotel at Themistokleous 18, Rhodes Old Town.

As the height of tourist season is nearing by, ferries are almost queuing up in the busy port of Parikia. Hordes of people flock in the harbour area. I wonder how many of these people got to do any useful walking on the island. Paros might not be your typical walking island, but there are very nice walks that can be done even here. For some tips see my Paros page.