Team 4.
Susprisingly, we all managed to get off to an early start as James decided he would get up in time. Despite the grumpy ticket woman charging us a heffer of a fine, we boarded the ferry ready for a sweaty trek up the Samaria Gorge. While the girls were leading ahead of the group, the boys complained lagging behind. As we were taking observations we chose those unlucky enough to make eye contact with us to ask about why they had decided to visit the gorge and how they had heard about the attraction. These came in the form of a Canadian couple who admitted to being “geology nerds”. After discussing tourist activities, we arrived at the ‘Iron Gates’ which clearly lacked any metal structure. Here we stopped for lunch having undertaken many observations of tourism management in the gorge. During lunch, we divulged in a heated discussion about rainforests and coniferous trees, only to discover Chris was completely off the mark (a general holiday occurance). This lead to many a sing-alongs to the Jungle Book and George of the Jungle. After finally making down the gorge, we reseted at a taverna near to beach where we asked questions to the taverna owner and a tour guide about tourism in the village. Chloe seemed to be confused about why someone would pay a tour guide to “take them up the gorge”. The taverna owner insisted in a mid-afternoon drink, which we could not refuse! On the ferry ride home, our sense of humour got the better of us with jokes from the previous days.
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