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Beach with main & outside building in background Main swimming pool vue de la terrase de la chambre entrée de  l'hotel

Marina Hotel Heraklion

, Gouves Heraklion, Crete, 70014, Greece

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Foto-Safari & Sea Shanties

A travel blog entry by v-nessa

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... rest of the afternoon on deck and watched the riggers strike the sails. (I learned that it is called "strike the sails" when they take them away.)

After dinner we went to the lido bar where we enjoyed the performance of the "Sea Cloud Shanties". The crew dressed up and sang sea shanties in English, German and Filipino. It was a lot of fun.

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Ancient Ruins in Crete

A travel blog entry by eringreece

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... loose and we were forced to seek shelter in a cave until the rain let up enough to run to the nearest restaurant for some warm food and hot chocolate. We returned to Athens Sunday night, another ten hour ride with little to no sleep, and then took a bus from the port to school. I returned home Monday morning at 8:30 am with class at 11 am. Even with the rain and long long long ferry ride, I would still consider the weekend a success. ...

Closing out Crete - Back to Iraklion

A travel blog entry by ukcat

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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 ...

Thessaloniki to Crete

A travel blog entry by ukcat

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... the international security risk was not there. Landing in Iraklion, Crete we were immediately greeted with a sign of economic turmoil, a taxi strike. The city bus folks assured us the "blue" bus would pass by our hotel and drop us at their door. They dropped us close to a mile away at the Costello Hotel while we were staying at the ...

Conquering the mountain

A travel blog entry by saledwards

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... off at this beach where the sand was black - except it wasn't sand, it was tiny little black pebbles (no sand anywhere to be sean) and very very hot to walk on. Afterwards I met up and had a beer with a couple from Canada who were on my bus. At 6pm we all cuaght a ferry to another town where the bus could collect us from, which took an hour and the view of the southern coast line was, once again, spectacular. there was a French man on the bus on the way back ...

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