Greece, (Crete)

Santorini was nice, but after 5 days I was ready to move on, we decided to go to Crete and Andrew moved on the Mykonos, I hope he had fun there, he was a nice guy but I was all Andrew'd out so I was not sorry to part with him.

Day 1: Knossos

Out of time again, gotta make this quick. Went to Knossos the first day in Crete which was really cool, best preserved ruins in Greece. "Sir" Arthur Evans, an English archaelogist has excavated the ruins and has done some restoring which is quite controversial (see pics). Apparently, he has done some liberal guessing though and more or less restored what he thought looked cool according to some people. It was sooooo hot this day, we ducked into the shade for lunch and Dave discovered yet more pottery shards to add to his collection. Overall, Knossos was cool but smaller than I thought it would be, it wouldn't have been worth the hassle to get here but the ruins were unique in the fact that you could actually see what they used to look like (remember what I said about Evans "restoration" work. See the pics to get an idea of what I'm talking about.


Ruins at Knossos

Some of Evans "Restoration Work" I appreciate it anyways

The old walkway to the village, but now it just goes to the freeway...

Day 2: Heraklion's Beaches

The second day we went to the beach, it was beautiful, best beach we have had so far. The beaches on Santorini were black sand and rocky which burnt your feet and cut them at the same time, not really pleasant, but the beaches on Crete were beautiful, white sand and really nice. We visited the beach just outside of Heraklion, weren't really sure where to get off but as usual the Greek people were very nice and helped us out.

The beach in Crete

Some lady videotaping, never knew I had her on film :)
- posted by mark @ 3:39 PM