Chora Sfakion
The students and staff that made up the 2009 Crete field trip met on Chancellors Way at 0545hrs Tuesday morning, all present and correct. The coach arrived punctually for 0600hrs and a pre rush hour journey to Gatwick was completed in just over an hour, checking in, security checks then commenced and everyone proceeded through to the duty free area and on to board the Monarch plane flight no. Mon 1472. The take off was prompt at 1015 hours and the plane completed the flight 30mins early, landing at 1545hrs after adjusting watches forward by 2 hours. The onward coach was awaiting and was away at 1650 taking one and a half hours to reach Chora Spakion.
Student and staff were allocated rooms and shortly after some were dining whilst others were having a swim from the beach just below the Hotel Livikon. After the evening meal the wireless connections were investigated and the hotel Three Brothers kindly allowed use of their connection. All in all the journey had been completed remarkably free of strife and the staff had negotiated internet connections for staff and students to use in completion of the internet portion of the module.
It is quite remarkable to think that the party was now ensconced in what had once been a remote village in Crete and the course convenor was sitting in a cafe with a wireless connection having a face to face conversation with his wife having left her in a remote village in Wiltshire that very morning.
