Marin Dream Heraklion
12, Doukos Bofort Heraklion, Crete, 71202, Greece
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Heraklion and Minoan Knossos
Our flight gets in at 10;25P and we catch a taxi to the Marin Dream Hotel (which I got from Expedia) which is a nice enough place. We plan to spend the day in Knossos and at the Museum and that's what we do all day. I loved Knossos, even though the gift shop only has 3 small cycladic sculptures (we buy them all) and we have to go across the road …
Crete Part 1
Over Thanksgiving break, I visited the island of Crete for four days with my friend Jessica. The flight was blessedly short - only fifty minutes. (We could have taken the ferry, but after the eight hour overnight ferry to Santorini - and Crete is even further - neither of us were eager to repeat that experience.) When we arrived in Heraklion, we …
Made it to Creti in one piece....
Made it, in one piece. Bravo!
Our hotel was well placed and well comfortable - so to speak. On the fifth floor, it was the last but one to over look the harbour and a short climb to the bistro upstairs. Easily the best appointed place on tour thus far. So we asked where we should dine, and having received the instructions wandered up the …
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Foto-Safari & Sea Shanties
... some) quite difficult as there were a lot of waves. The tour on the zodiac was quite rocky but well worth! We went all around the Sea Cloud with short stops to take pictures. With the blue sky and a few clouds we had an amazing scenery. It was really great!!!
The last zodiac was not full, so lucky me got a second round :-)
We ...
Ancient Ruins in Crete
... to eat and stay out of the rain, which fell both days of our trip on and off. On Sunday we stopped at Matala, a city on the southern side of Crete almost directly opposite Heraklion. We had some free time to explore the city and found the old roman cemetery. This consisted of a series of caves carved into the white limestone where people lived and where, later on, the dead were placed. While exploring the caves the clouds once ...



