Golden Beach Hersonissos
191 El. Venizelou Street, Lima Hersonissou Hersonissos, Crete, 700 14, Greece
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Foto-Safari & Sea Shanties
... rest of the afternoon on deck and watched the riggers strike the sails. (I learned that it is called "strike the sails" when they take them away.)
After dinner we went to the lido bar where we enjoyed the performance of the "Sea Cloud Shanties". The crew dressed up and sang sea shanties in English, German and Filipino. It was a lot of fun.
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Ancient Ruins in Crete
... the area were taken we decided to sleep on the floor, which, thankfully, was carpeted. We arrived in Heraklion early saturday morning and walked about twenty minutes to our hotel, where we had two hours to nap. We ate a lovely hotel breakfast and spent the next two days seeing sites such as the old palaces of Knossos and Phaistos, visiting an archaeological museum and using our free time to pick up souvenirs, and find a good ...
Sleeping with a goat
We checked out Rethymnont today which was a nice stop. Tons of shops and restaurants and we had a nice meal at Melody restaurant. At the hotel, I was called reception asking for feather pillows. She said they had a pillow menu and named off about 7 different pillow types but then said for you I recommend the 'anti-aging' pillow. I found that comment bizarre but I insisted upon the goat pillow. She ...
Closing out Crete - Back to Iraklion
Saturday 10/1
A leisurely breakfast and good conversation with our innkeeper and we finally pulled out of Channia at noon. First destination was Knossos, the site of a very large royal Minoan palace. Like Gortyns, it got busted up around 1700 BC with an earthquake, rebuilt and then Minoan civilization crumbled around 1450 BC. Because the Minoans were using wooden ...
Windy City
Beautiful resort but not a lot to do as a result of the crazy wind. We decided to take a drive to nearby Agios Nikolaos which was a worthwhile place to check out but nothing special. We had a nice view from the restaurant for dinner which was the ...



