After a thoroughly relaxing first week, we finally came to the real purpose of our trip - Nick and Georgia's wedding. The ceremony was a traditional Greek one in this quaint little chapel in the hills about 40 mins drive from Iraklio. Naturally we didn't understand a single word of what was said but luckily one of Georgia's friends, Julie had prepared a summary of the proceedings in English so we could follow what was going on. The ceremony was pretty sweet and the three laps of the altar at the end with everyone heaving rice onto the newly married couple was a particular highlight. Onto the reception then, where the spread of food was truly amazing. Things like goat, lamb , greek salads and olive-oiled potatoes were just some of the things on offer. Far to much food, but hey it's a wdding right. Asia and I were feeling pretty tired for some reason, we had had a late night the night before and I think it started to catch up on us. So we decided to pike from the reception about 1:30am - just when the Greek dancing was getting in full swing. In summary though it was a thoroughly enjoyable wedding, up there in the top one or two that I have been to.
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