Mistral Hotel Agios Nikolaos

... 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 ...

We had a delay. Got up around 3:45 am and left Rose Cottage at 4 O'Clock for the airport. It was already starting to get lioght as we cruised by sleeping English villages. By the time we arrived at the airport it was fully light. Stood in a lond que(sp?) for check-in where we were told that our plane was delayed adnd that would we would hear further news at 10 am! (the joy of ...

Yes so Dave arrived and it has been a ridiculous whirlwind! Everyone loves him which I obviously KNEW was going to happen! We have been having a great time and GREAT weather!

Yesterday was a total write off for me I ended up sitting with Dave and Odetta AKA Bob till 8:30 in the morning partying and slept till 3 and that was it went back to bed again at midnight! my body is so SOAR today from all that ...

... again hang out with everyone while they eat breakfast go back to "fake" sleep again then think **** Dave just got here I SHOULD be entertaining him at least for the first 24 hours. alright get up say lets go to the pool bar OK LETS GO- from Davey but we need to go buy him a towel so Dave myself and 2 other Crazy canadians set off to buy him a towel then go to the pool bar- SOOOO while we are walking I look behind (you know those times when you just KNOW something is ...

... it was because it was at the back of my armpit!) and there THERE IT IS a small little spike sticking out of me and there on the ground is a nasty WASPE!

So ANYWAYS been enjoying myself (not that I wouldn't) 2 days ago Lisa "bob" her name is Odetta but noone can rmember or pronounce her name so her name to everyone else (I refuse to call her that!) and her lovely sister "not bob" AKA Evette arrived! yesterday Gheert (almost pronounced Heee-uuuurrrtttt) from ...

... I really REALLY needed it last year.

sooooo yes it took me 46 crazy hours to get here I slept in an airport I slept (actually maybe all of one hour) at the bus station last night! I got into the Athens airport after the night before checking things ont he computer and last minute said f it I am just going to fly to Athens (way faster a little more expansive mind you but I just needed OUT of Croatia! so spent the night in the airport with ...

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 ...

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 :(

... goes down. They built them this way with upside down tree trucks because they thought if they buried them the other way they would start growing again. We entered through the western court where religious rituals and sacrifices where preformed. They used both animal (bull) and grain offerings for sacrifices. Something I found interesting was that they used the sick and injured bulls as sacrifices unlike the sacrifices of the Old Testament. To my understanding, there ...