Thoughts and observations while in Crete.

I've been in Crete (Kphth), Greece for the last 5 days. Currently I'm hunched over bed in discomfort. Reason being is I've deviated a bit from my fruitarian/raw vegan diet since I've been out here. This is not due to a lack of good fruit and produce. Infact there's oranges, mandarin, and trees bearing a fruit something like lychee minus the tough shell and pit which as times is prone to break off onto the flesh of the fruit and make them tough to clean.
There's really no reason other then human envy that I've eaten a few things here which disagree with me like a variation on gyros with only French fries and humus. The culprit of my current discomfort is a seemingly harmless plate of spaghetti. While I hunch over in fetil position there's excess fruit that rots freely by the sides of the trees all over Chania. Even in paradise one could be prone to make wrong decisions.
Admittedly this isn't the most welcoming intro to a review on one's vacation. I just could not resist the medium for confession these blog sites provide. Being up all night with digestive pain tends to make one self reflect a bit even the cost of creating a desirable mood.
I've been going out every night since I've been in Chania with my cousins. Starting the evenings at bars and moving our way to the clubs later in the night (usually between 1-4 am). I can't say I'm sold entirely on that way of life which is standard for many of the youth of Chania. People walking up and down the Chania bay wanting to be seen, greeting, and getting to show off their outfits. There's the same level of superficialness at play in clubs in the US and I've come to understand that personality type/social phenomenon and don't spite it as much as my anarchist/crust punk cousin from northern Greece Mixali I've been hanging out with (last night we went to the Chania squat which was very impressive. It's housed in the old colonial palace of the former King of Kphth. The building is Large with a lobby that has tables on either side filled with news letters and zines. The facility also houses a large children's playroom and performance theater. I had thought the non punk rock fashion anarchist was a thing of the past but was happily surprised). I can actually sympathize with that aspect of our collective personality. While the club scene might not be for me being here has made me realize that removing yourself from society entirely it becomes easy to take on narrow and critical view of people to justify one's alone time. You also miss out on the motivation that comes from those around you.
More so then anything this has made an impression on me; in Europe people still haven't fallen into the trap of social networks and constant text messaging. There's a quality of directness that's lost in the US do to unwritten social laws of conduct. A generation weened on sheepish political correctness in the disguise of progress. Greece is far from a hub of ideological development and it's simply a land filled with humans that have had their own social conditioning, that deal with their own cultural issues (this is of course a country which now has a Fascist party doing well in the polls) so I'm under no illusion that "they've got it right".
Kphth is a beautiful island, filled with attractive people, a deep history that is evident all around you, and a natural beauty that makes life itself an adventure. Though so far what I've taken away is a admiration for the humanism still left in this part of the world.