Minas Apartments Hersonissos

... deck overlooking the harbor and old Venetian walls, as well as the Mt. Idi mountains. Not shabby - we even get a couple of chaises. Of course we won't actually be spending much time lounging around the hotel because we have to see the Minoans.

We went off in search of food and found a quiet taverna - crushed fresh tomatoes and olive oil on a baked brown bread; greek tomato, feta, pepper, and olive salad; and ...

... any discount for pensioners unless you're over 65), and we were greeted by a guide – Eva – she suggested that we would benefit from her services. She was right, without her knowledge and panache it could have been just another pile of rocks. It is a palace of the Minoan civilization that pre-dated the Greeks and ruled the Mediterranean with the world’s first navy. The myths about the Minoans (Minotaur, labyrinth) were probably inventions of ...

... ago whemn it said it was still delayed! So we rushed towards our gate (of course first through security) and me making some impressive acrobatic moves trying not to fall with my slippery flipflops on the marble stones. But we made it and are now on our way to Crete! I think that's all for now. Oh I just spend £2,- on a cup of tea! How expensive can it be?!

Holly

... a while but I am really ready and looking forward to it! Flying into Vancouver next wednesday then somehow getting over to Victoria where will meet dad, Lena and Karen then on friday mom is arriving! oh man it is going to be so much fun! then on sunday we are all flying home together! Which I think is really nice!

So thats about it have to get out in that sunshine to keep up my dark tan ;-)) Life is so hard!!!

... me thinking WIERDOOOOO- oh and yes he invited me to come to the beach with him- yeah thanks NOPE!

SO I fake going back to bed fake is me trying to fake myself back into sleeping I was pretending to sleep in order for my body to think I was and actually FALL asleep but nope just daydreamed about my terrible new book where this murderer is being called the new jesus and is trying to donate his heart to the daughter of the family he murdered- messed yes! so get ...

... telling my friends how mom wanted to go on my travel blog and fix all the spelling and grammer and accidently let it slide that I have no IDEA what the hell the difference is between all the "theirs..." are! geeze do NOT ever tell that to a teacher ;-))

So since I am not in transit to anywhere else until the 20th (back to Athens so I can rewalk old times geta little sappy and sweat my ass off!) not sure how much I will be writing here!

Ok Dokey! CHEERS!!!!

... stationn which didn't even GO to the bus station dropped me off on this dark road and poiunted for me to walk down this even darker alley... WHAT! haha well what could I di! jumped off adn walked with my luggage clenching my fist thinking allright I can take ANYONE on (which is a TOTAL lie I would be stabbed and robbed before I knew what hit me!) So got to the bus station JUST as they were closing up GREEAT stuck in ****** Heraklion! like Athens but ...

We didn't have much time here but my wife, one of my sisters and my brother-in-law walked around the town square and did a little shopping. There was a jazz exhibit at a local church that we checked out. They had some wonderful pictures of Louie Armstrong, Miles Davis and other icons of the jazz world. One of my nephews went to the beach and his mom, brother and his fiancé took a tour. My two ...

... this summer and will be able to share more about what happened. However, the eruption of the volcano at Santorini is considered to be one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history and created an enormous tsunami that wiped out all of the Minoan towns along the Mediterranean coast.

Next morning we were off on a high speed ferry to the quiet and remote island of Folegandros, Greece.

Through a series of unfortunate events, this is the sole remaining picture of our magical day in Crete. In all of my genius I deleted the Crete and Turkey photos by accident and boy was that ever a sad day. Of course the first thing I did after getting home from the cruise was upload the Sbux series to Facebook, so now the Starbucks photo is the only one left of Crete :(