Blue Palace Crete

In the immortal words of Buzz lightyear, quote - to Crete and beyond!!! What a great way we planned our ferry travel - to island hop - it was great traveling while we slept on the same coin! A lovely 2 berth stateroom - our trip was uneventful and ...

... that was supposed to have been constructed to house the Minotaur. The population of the town at that time was about 12000. The palace was destroyed twice by earthquakes and was never rebuilt after the second one. While the tour to the Knossos Palace was ...

... bought the palace, became apparent, as he built cement columns and painted them, along with walls and ceilings.  Interpretation of the palace became one more of looking at how Arthur Evans saw the palace, not how it may really have looked.  We ...

... European civilization ever to be uncovered: The Minoans. The funny thing, however, is no one really knows if it's actually a palace or not. We spent a couple of hours exploring the ruin and deciding for ourselves what we thought its true purpose was. We ...

... was it's protection, any enemy who made their way in would be trapped in the labyrinth. Excavation & reconstruction of the palace has been extensive, some urns from 2000 BC remain amongst the ruins but many of the artifacts are now housed in the ...

... hell stings. Poor little buggers, I assume its worse for them hitting me.... The coastal countryside in Crete is exceptional. Emerald green and blue seas, high yellow and grey mountains, olive groves, fruit trees, sunshine.... Then you cruise through ...

... and pink lining the highway.  Instead of checking into our hotel first, we decided to go and visit the ruins of the ancient palace of Knossos, the palace of the legendary king Minos, after whom the Minoan civilization was named.  This place was ...

... my most anticipated stop thus far - the beautiful Santorini. We only had a few hours in Crete and spent it at the Knossos Palace. Crete was sadly bombed in the second world war (under german invasion from 1941-45) so much of the original architecture has ...

After a 3 hour ferry from Santorini to Heraklion we finally arrived in Crete!  We picked up our rental car and soon realized as we left the lighted streets of the city that our headlights didnt work very well.  The lights only lit about 7 feet ...

We flew from Athens to Crete this morning across the Aegean Sea under blue skies. Knossos, the palace of the Minoans, was our first stop. Our guide Maria expounded on the merits of this earliest advanced civilization in Europe - roughly from 2500 to 1500 ...

... bought the palace, became apparent, as he built cement columns and painted them, along with walls and ceilings.  Interpretation of the palace became one more of looking at how Arthur Evans saw the palace, not how it may really have looked.  We ...

... I did because it made my day. Copies of the world-famous frescos can be found in most parts of the central palace complex but I'm not sure whether they are placed faithfully to where the originals were actually found. The originals are now ...

... ; I ran out of bobby pins so I got really creative.  Megan showed up right before we docked at Crete, and so I did her hair also.  The Palace of Knossos was closed, so instead we had a special worship service with a new group of ...

... morning I'll head out to Iraklio, Crete's biggest town, where we should meet up again and check out the museum and another Minoan palace and head to Santorini, which is supposed to be a very shweet island, on a ferry Tuesday evening. And that's what's ...

... only got to make it to the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion which holds much of the treasures from the Knossos Palace which is nearby on Crete. Knossos is a famous dig site/ruins for the Minoan civilization. It was interesting because I've already ...

... less cold.  At any rate, these were some of the most picturesque moments of our trip, with beautiful shots of the sea and surrounding coastline of Crete.  The water is an indescribable shade of blue and waves spout up from the rocky ...

... addition, the site occupies a large place in both area and time, and there is a lot of context to absorb.  The Palace at Knossos was famously excavated and recreated by a Victorian archaeologist, Sir Evans.  Sir Evans is the one who dubbed the ...

... . Today we visited another archeological site (Sneh, Lindsay's friend that we are visiting is an archeology major). We went to the Palace of Malia. It was interesting and the weather cleared by the afternoon. The weather is perfect, warm but not hot so I ...

... spreekt ons aan en we nodigen ons zelf uit morgen met hun mee te gaan  naar Palekastro en Zakros. In Palekastro is een Minoan Palace  en in Zakros is een wandeling van 8 km. Het enige is dat er maar twee bussen per dag rijden, waarvan de eerste ...

... I want to marry. So, I went on into the overgrown inner sanctum. The place had a thorny barrier like sleeping beauties palace. I climbed, crawled and traversed my way onward. Squeesing my body through a tiny hole I appeared blinking into the sunlight. I ...