Marilena Beach Heraklion
173A Papandreou St, Amoudara Beach Heraklion, Crete, 71414, Greece
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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 ...
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
... ready to settle in and prepare to take the ferry to Santorini the next morning. Again we encountered the adventures of driving in the old city. The Kastro is located in an area with extremely narrow streets. Unloading the car with traffic impatiently waiting for you to move on is like a NASCAR pit stop. We need more practice and a clear designation of the pit crew leader. ...
Thessaloniki to Crete
... streets that were steep and so narrow that we had to turn the mirrors in to avoid hitting parked cars and sides of the buildings. Zorbita does not distinguish between passable roads and named footpaths and we had a real adventure in driving the old city streets but finally located the church.
Next we headed to the Byzantine ...
Conquering the mountain
... hoping for a bit of quiet by this time as all those bloody europeans, jabbering all the way down the mountain was doing my head in, and I was just wanting a bit of serenity and peace. thankfully, it worked. It really thinned out after that, but also I think that many people would have kept fairly quiet as the going soon got really tough. There was a section of about 4kms where the whole hike was walking over rocks, in direct sun. It really was tough. It ...



