What a complete waste

IT's so typical here in Greece, they arrange a big event, and you only find out about it by chance, or afterwards. Take this week as an example.
  It was the Cycle Race around Crete - Really?, even friends of ours who have a business here did not know about it until the riders flashed past their shop.  No wonder nobody stood on the streets to cheer them through. Take a look at the Tour de France, yes, it's well established, but the publicity of it stretches to all the villages, and for weeks before the event there are banners and promotions goping on.
  Here there was a double blow to the event, not only poor advertising but on the day the riders were due to ship over to the island - the ferries went on strike! Result a field that should have been more than 100 was decimated to around half.
  The riders really were put through their paces, from Heraklion, to Ak Nik onto the bottom part of the south coast and through to take in Rythmno to Chania. They wizzed through Hersonissos, and also into Neapoli, the only remarks from some of the locals was to complain about some roads being closed for a short while.