Hotel Aegean Sky Heraklion
Il. Katsouli 17 Heraklion, Crete, 70007, Greece
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Foto-Safari & Sea Shanties
We spent the morning strolling thru Heraklion. The tourist season is mainly over here as well. Also, it was Sunday so not many shops were open. We saw a lot of well dressed locals, probably all returning from church.
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We had lunch on deck and as usual watched the guys set the sails. At 3pm ...
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 ...
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 ...
Day 260 - Last Day in Crete
... crowded streets and zipping traffic. Once we had unloaded our bags he handed off the keys to the hotel staff who evidently were used to parking tourists cars in a way that only a local could manage.
The early evening ambience of Heraklion was much improved from our early arrival less than 3 days ago. We found a nice Italian restaurant and enjoyed the food and the company of the proprietor from our initial ...
Thessaloniki to Crete
... parking was a nightmare and we ended up leaving the car with a parking service at a BP gasoline station and hoped we would see it again. The museum was worth the effort and we recovered the car.
Time to fly to Crete. Everyone went through security with flying colors except Mary. After disassembling her carry on bag they ...



