Hotel Adonis Hersonissos

... and we talked about architecture, the cruise, our lives and everything in between. Our destination was the Palace of Knossos, about 90 minutes away, and the route took us along a coastal road with spectacular views to the turquoise sea. We had one hour once we got to the site due to an early 3 pm closing. It is off season, after all.

Highlights

1. The Palace of Knossos is worth a visit, and in my case it was a second visit. I found ...

... next day and caught a cab back in to Chania. We then caught the bus back to Heraklion (or Iraklio) and the fun of finding somewhere to stay for our second night on Crete began.

P!ssing down with rain, no cagoules, no money, hungry, nowhere to stay - it was pretty rubbish. Crete is a pretty ****** place as well. Lots of graffiti around and dog poo on the footpaths. But, we managed to get another credit card working and then found an internet cafe ...

... local sausages from Rethmyio rounded out our meal. After some false starts looking for the bus station, we had a hot slow bus trip out to Knossos, the vast Minoan palace excavated and somewhat Disnified by Arthur Evans in the 1900s. That palace dates from 1700-1400 BC and is a large structure of 1300 rooms. The palace is known for its frescoes, labyrinthian ways, Minoan columns, and frescoes. It also contains the earliest ...

... Greek story tellers - the Minoans were highly organized and technologically advanced some 4000 years ago, and well before the Greeks. The palace grounds were bought from the Turks in 1900, by a British archaeologist, Harold Evans, and he spent the next 35 years investigating and restoring (controversially) the ruins. Well done Evans and another yah boo sucks to Lord Elgin.

We went to one of the beach front bars near Leoniki Residence for cocktails. The view at ...

... My iPod decided it had enough and decided it didn't have aenough energy left =( me being rather annoyed since I had fully charged it that same night << (btw I think we are just flying over Garda Lake in Italy!). Took a stroll outside and by the time we ate our salads and I looked on the information board it said that our flight/gate was closing! Now we looked about 12 ...

... i want some new greek sandals!!! I am taking the over ngiht ferry to Athens on thursday arrivi9ng at 6 AM aghhhh I am going to ehad over to the hostel right away and leave my bag there I am so excited to walk down the streets I walked for 5 weeks and to smell the smells and to eat the food and to see if I recognize anyone!

I am getting so ridiculously excited to come home!!!! YAYYYY!!! I am ready now ...

... now! alright and he was just WEIRD from the beginning no one asked him to come no one invited him (NOT that we would not have of course any of us would have said hey come with us but instead your man freakily walked behind us and then started talking to us like we were all best frieds..)

So we go to the pool bar and let me tell you the pool bar is this GREAT place a nice pool the deep end has to be at least 8 feet and the water is crisp and clean where you ...

... give me a break it's FAR and I did walk BACK. blue water as blue as ever amazing too bad Crete is so WINDY!!!! AGHHH!!! had a bout witha woman in my room WHY they would put a loud ass liek me in with a tight ass woman who hates any noise after 11 in the same room god only knows. but it's ok Lisa Odetta and Evette moved into the same room as me and we "under the influence" got back at her by bein a tad bit noisy their first night!

ALSO got scolded after I ...

... last eyar after 2.5 months of loneliness. there is a big reunion! a few of the people are already here some others are showing up later I wasnt supposed to eb here till the 14th but after the little camping mishap I wa sliek I am out of here and you knwo screw it I SHOULD ahve saw more countries but I KNEW in my heart I would be having the time of my life 16 days with amazing people that I relaly love cause they showed me so much warmth and kindness ...

Through a series of unfortunate events, this is the sole remaining picture of our magical day in Crete. In all of my genius I deleted the Crete and Turkey photos by accident and boy was that ever a sad day. Of course the first thing I did after getting home from the cruise was upload the Sbux series to Facebook, so now the Starbucks photo is the only one left of Crete :(