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Kreta
... naar Plaka en daar een bootje tot het eiland Spinalonga en daarna zouden we terugkomen en wat op het strand gaan zwemmen. Nu zullen we moeten kiezen. We gaan naar het toerismekantoor om te vragen hoe lang het duurt om de bus en de boot te nemen. Hij zegt ons een half uur. Dat valt dus goed mee. We vragen hoe laat er bussen zijn en op de typisch norse Griekse manier wijst hij ons een foldertje aan met de bus schedule vanuit Aghios. We lopen ermee naar buiten en ...
Goodbye Crete
... port and go the Hellenic Seaways office and yeah we got two tickets to Mykonos tomorrow so don’t know what that agent was going on about. Troy seems to think you cannot buy tickets online within 24 hrs so we went directly to the office. Well with tickets in hand we decide that we are not spending tonight in Heraklion so we head east.
About 15 minutes out of Heraklion we find some nice enough resorts and book ourselves into Knossos Beach ...
We're not lost... - Lasithi & Peza
... had to decide what we wanted to do there. In my very first search I learned of many beautiful caves that scatter the island, and as caves are entirely fascinating I demanded that we visit one. The closest cave to Heraklion is the Dikteon Cave in the Lisithi Plateau. It is also called the Psychro cave, named after the town in which it is situated. According to myth, the baby Zeus was born in this cave when his mother fled to it for his ...
The Royal Palace of Knossos
... and political centre of the Minoan civilization and culture. It appears as a maze of workrooms, living spaces, and storerooms close to a central square. An approximate graphic view of some aspects of Cretan life in the Bronze Age is provided by restorations of the palace's indoor and outdoor murals, as it is also by the decorative motifs of the pottery and the insignia on the seals and sealings."
In reality, the palace is large but rarely shows more than ...
What a beautiful island--Crete
We arrived in Crete almost two hours later yesterday due to some incident on the ship where someone fell,jumped, whatever overboard. No worries-- all our chicks were very safely tucked in their cabins! We did have one worry, though, one of our students luggage was filched off the baggage truck. Thankfully he had all his electronics with him as well as his items he ...
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