The hostel that time forgot: Plakias, Crete
April 12, 2001
By Christopher Deliso In Homer’s Odyssey, the wandering hero is slowed down for a time in the land of the lotus-eaters, a mysterious people who remain indefinitely in a pleasant, drug-induced trance, free from all ambition and responsibilities. Of course, in the story, Odysseus is able to wrest himself free and go on to bigger [...]