Silvia Apartments Hersonissos
Village of Koutouloufari Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
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Still off Libya
Tuesday 17th January 2012
The accommodation for everybody on board starts on C deck and as your status increases, so too does your deck letter with the Captain and Chief Engineer sharing G deck. (Loaded as we are, no cabins from C to G have a view forward or aft.) On F there are 4 passenger cabins, the Chief Mate and 2nd Engineer - 6 cabins in total. 5 of these, including mine, face forwards and the 4th passenger cabin, known as 'Owner', has ...
Off Libya
... and bent my neck downwards while pressing my forehead to the glass and looking skywards. I could see a sliver of grey cloud but that amount of sky doesn't give much away. Even when there's a bit of grey, it is always good to look around the horizon where there is often the edge of a front that will herald brighter or at least different weather. But Max Gross and all his mates conspired to prevent me getting that wider perspective ...
Foto-Safari & Sea Shanties
... the walk-a-mile group for the daily rounds. Our group got bigger today, I assume more people realized that their pants got tighter.
After that our cruise director Lisa announced a surprise: we were going to do a foto-safari. We got divided into small groups, had to put on life jackets and then boarded the zodiacs. Entering the zodiacs ...
Palace of Knossos & Lasithi Valley
Today we flew across the Aegean Sea from Athens to the island of Crete. We arrived at the airport in Heraklion.
We took a bus to the Palace of Knossos, built in 1900 BC, destroyed by an earthquake and rebuilt in 1700 BC. In 1899, Sir Arthur Evans began excavations of the huge palace and residential complex and over the next 30 years substantially reconstructed it.
It was home ...
Ancient Ruins in Crete
... to eat and stay out of the rain, which fell both days of our trip on and off. On Sunday we stopped at Matala, a city on the southern side of Crete almost directly opposite Heraklion. We had some free time to explore the city and found the old roman cemetery. This consisted of a series of caves carved into the white limestone where people lived and where, later on, the dead were placed. While exploring the caves the clouds once ...


