Solano Hotel Hersonissos
Filikis Eterias 9 Hersonissos, Crete, 70014, Greece
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Still off Libya
Tuesday 17th January 2012
The accommodation for everybody on board starts on C deck and as your status increases, so too does your deck letter with the Captain and Chief Engineer sharing G deck. (Loaded as we are, no cabins from C to G have a view forward or aft.) On F there are 4 passenger cabins, the Chief Mate and 2nd Engineer - 6 cabins in total. 5 of these, including mine, face forwards and the 4th passenger cabin, known as 'Owner', has ...
Off Libya
... is a tad depressing. So Shania is belting it out beside me and doing her best to raise my spirits.
A visit to the bridge established we are due at Suez in two days, about 19.00 local (Wednesday 18th Jan) if we take it slowly at 14 knots. We have to get there and register to go through the canal the following day, with transit time being the best part of a day on Thursday. We go through in convoy (southbound) and pass ...
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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Palace of Knossos & Lasithi Valley
... drainage system, flushing toilets and paved roads. In about 1200 BC, the Minoan civilization had pretty much disappeared.
The Horns of Consecration is a symbol of the sacred bull. There were many replicas of frescoes. Several large pithoi, storage jars, were unearthed at Knossos. The jars were used to store olive oil, wine and grain. The Minoan columns were made of Cypress wood. ...
Ancient Ruins in Crete
Ahhh Crete. One of the many fantastic places I have been wanting to visit during my time here in Greece. My journey began with a ten hour ferry ride from Peiraeus to Heraklion (Athens to Crete). Apparently there was some confusion about our tickets and we were supposed to have cabins but ended up having to stay in the dining area instead. So I stayed up in the cafe chatting with the other ten or so students on the trip. As the ...

