Thanks all for the encouragement. As I said, I live in Crete,Greece but am English. This forum sounds just like ours - new fish & chip shop, buying cheddar cheese etc!! Haven't yet found the complaints about 'booze-fuelled youngster' (to quote certain media) on holiday in the resort tho. Guess the local culture lets you off that one? Or do the tour operators/hotel owners manage to get round it? I'm also curious about the incredibly cheap prices for hotel rooms. Do the owners/workers make a living out of them? Crete is quite an expensive tourist destination and, in Greece's current financial mess maybe could learn from Turkey?