Hotel Aegean Sky Heraklion

... 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 ...

... tennis, playstation, tv and pool on offer and there is also 14 lovely little bungalows you can stay in for your holiday, right on the beach if you don't want to camp in a tent.
Just imagine waking up to the view of the waves crashing on the rocks right outside your door ........... I can't wait for next summer as we will definately be there again.

p.s. After reading some of the other blogs I agree Hersonissos can be a crazy place in town ...

... especially now that I am listening to Ave Maria on my iPod - the song I want to be married on, It makes me feel so calm, so peaceful. There are no words.

Holly

... island. We arrived at Heraklion and drove the 45 minutes to The Kalimera Kriti Hotel in Sissi. The Kalimera Kriti Hotel is a beachfront family resort built in Cretan village style. On arrival we were shown to the Taverna in the grounds of the hotel it looks ...

... eventual?
- In stanga spre Gouves la capat e un intreg cartier, e al fundatiei Theoxenia din Oros Athos, dar trebuie sa stiti ca nu e voie cu muzica si galagie pana tarziu, maicutele sunt foarte stricte.

Asta e dialogul pe cat mi-l amintesc al intalnirii cu Kir Paschalis, proprietar de agentie imobiliara din Grecia.
Si intr-adevar in Grecia biserica ortodoxa e foarte puternica. Puterea sa e data mai degraba de bogatie imobiliara decat ...

Just finished reading Portraits by Cynthia Freeman. Makes me feel even more grateful for my family. I must be one of the luckiest girls around to have a family who love and support me.

Went out to dinner last night. Nicky & Graham had given us a lovely card which us a great trip and £40! for us to spend so that we at least are able to go to dinner once - so that's what we did. We walked down to town. It's a pretty place build around teh bay with here and there a fisher's boat resting in the sea. Seeing all the restaurants we were afraid (well that's not really the right word but you know what I mean) of being hassled by every restaurand emplyee ...

... exhausted on our bed.

Being so very hot we changed into our bikinis and with our big bags of this and that -books, puzzles, Lonely Planet, paper, pen, iPod etc- we went down to the swimming pool. How come it's so difficult to find the courage to just into the pool?? Sitting on the edge with your legs dangling in the water is one thing, but to make the jump is quite another feet..

Holly

... who throws her career and great apartment away to move to Alaska to meet a man (hence very clever title to the book). Very readable, and a lot of fun, but not much plot. Hotstuff (Janet Evanovich) Bit more plot than Manhunt (see above), but still relatively frothy and light...single woman with parents trying to set her up on dates, but ends up getting involved with an ex-cop who is appearing to investigate her drag-queen roommate. Quite ...