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Foto-Safari & Sea Shanties
... 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
... 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 ...
Sleeping with a goat
... that the anti-aging pillow is the goat pillow. I said we will take two goats and call it a night. She didn't quite understand why I was laughing the entire time. 10 minutes later two housekeepers came and brought the thinnest pillows I have ever seen and spent a few minutes putting the pillows together. It sounded like beads and we were told the pillows were filled with 100% cherry pits. So not ...
Closing out Crete - Back to Iraklion
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 ...
Windy City
Beautiful resort but not a lot to do as a result of the crazy wind. We decided to take a drive to nearby Agios Nikolaos which was a worthwhile place to check out but nothing special. We had a nice view from the restaurant for dinner which was the ...


