Met some nice folk from the U.S. in June and a mate of mine was in Hessonis, Hisoni, Hersoni, er, near Malia in July and they met lots of Russians.

From what I can gather, the Yanks were all at the 5 star places in Elounda or at the Blue Palace. They were suprised that the Blue Palace was not in Elounda - it seems they were told it was, like, in the centre or on the outskirts at the very most.

Nice to see U.S. travel companies are as economical with such facts as ours are.

I think a few European or UK holiday companies came out of Elounda a few years back.

DA