Elizabeth of Rethymno!

I'll tell you what, it's a good way to wear out a truck travelling over those narrow ill-defined city streets. It's impossible to avoid road repairs and manholes and both of us have caught the RH rears on the gutter more than once. Things are shaking loose, like the RH door catch came apart, the door swinging out; and the LH window winder coming off. Tail lights come loose. The worst has been the RH rear hub seal which we can do nothing about whilst on the road, just keep checking the diff oil which is leaking out through the hub seal, "I should've left the old seal alone," said Dale.

Our stay at Elizabeth Camping was a "lost opportunity." Lang wasn't to know that the owner, an American retiree called Elizabeth, a long term resident of the island, had an intricate knowledge of the invasion of Crete in WW2. She had books and maps and told us about the recent naming of Campbell Street after NZ CO Campbell. She felt that local enthusiasts would be disappointed about not meeting up with us and reckoned they would love to buy our trucks! Elizabeth reckoned the farmers would love the trucks! She wanted us to visit a private New Zealand WW2 museum, but we couldn't find it!

She insisted we take a book with us which was left by the occupants of another convoy member who was "lost" and hoped that her camping ground was the park for the night.

Later in the day, when we caught up with the convoy again at Creta Camping at Gouves, the story of the book unfolded. The McKinneys and Angela in the 1/2 ton tin top Dodge, had called by and fell under Elizabeth's spell the same as we had (accidentally leaving the book behind). They told Lang about Elizabeth, but Lang "wasn't interested!"

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