Well, I thought I would do a post finally - its better than the alternative (C is doing laundry in the hotel sink...).
Last night we landed in Crete and took a very quick taxi ride to our airport. The taxi was a VW Passat, that averaged 130 pretty much the whole way. The best part was that he didn't shift into 6th gear until he hit 140 km/hr. I will definitely have to test drive one of these when I get back to PA!!!
We checked into our hotel and because it was so late, we ended up getting a free upgrade to a superior room. That means our room is in the renovated wing, larger than normal, and very nice.
This morning we met with the Transat rep and discussed our excursion options. The one we wanted to do, they didn't offer. So, we walked down the street to some travel agents and ended up getting an excursion to hike the Samarian Gorge tomorrow for about 25% less than their posted price and 60% less than the travel company's prices...lesson learned...So, tomorrow we head to the Samarian Gorge - we have a wake up call for 4:30 a.m., breakfast at 5:00, then get on a bus and do 3 hours to the Gorge. The Gorge is a 16 km walk (down hill mostly) and then end up at the ocean. There we will swim and then take a boat to the highway and do the 3 hour trip home. Sounds like fun, right?
Today we then took the public bus to Hraklion, and went to Knossos, the palace of the Minonian, the reportedly first civilization started 4000 years ago. The palace wasn't actually that spectacular because the guy who excavated it basically made a bunch of assumptions and then rebuilt it with cement...however, both C and I believe that the neatest part was their plumbing system - they had water flowing through clay pipes from miles away up a mountain, going through the 5 story palace, then had dirty water channels in the floors of each level, and then had collection troughs for rain water than flowed throughout the palace. They even used toilets and bath tubs!!!
After Knossos, we returned to Hraklion and toured the fortress that protected the city. It didn't look that big from the outside, or even from the top, but inside it was pretty big and impressive. I will put pictures on tomorrow or the next day after the Gorge trip.
Hope everyone back home is doing well.
TTYL8R...
Last night we landed in Crete and took a very quick taxi ride to our airport. The taxi was a VW Passat, that averaged 130 pretty much the whole way. The best part was that he didn't shift into 6th gear until he hit 140 km/hr. I will definitely have to test drive one of these when I get back to PA!!!
We checked into our hotel and because it was so late, we ended up getting a free upgrade to a superior room. That means our room is in the renovated wing, larger than normal, and very nice.
This morning we met with the Transat rep and discussed our excursion options. The one we wanted to do, they didn't offer. So, we walked down the street to some travel agents and ended up getting an excursion to hike the Samarian Gorge tomorrow for about 25% less than their posted price and 60% less than the travel company's prices...lesson learned...So, tomorrow we head to the Samarian Gorge - we have a wake up call for 4:30 a.m., breakfast at 5:00, then get on a bus and do 3 hours to the Gorge. The Gorge is a 16 km walk (down hill mostly) and then end up at the ocean. There we will swim and then take a boat to the highway and do the 3 hour trip home. Sounds like fun, right?
Today we then took the public bus to Hraklion, and went to Knossos, the palace of the Minonian, the reportedly first civilization started 4000 years ago. The palace wasn't actually that spectacular because the guy who excavated it basically made a bunch of assumptions and then rebuilt it with cement...however, both C and I believe that the neatest part was their plumbing system - they had water flowing through clay pipes from miles away up a mountain, going through the 5 story palace, then had dirty water channels in the floors of each level, and then had collection troughs for rain water than flowed throughout the palace. They even used toilets and bath tubs!!!
After Knossos, we returned to Hraklion and toured the fortress that protected the city. It didn't look that big from the outside, or even from the top, but inside it was pretty big and impressive. I will put pictures on tomorrow or the next day after the Gorge trip.
Hope everyone back home is doing well.
TTYL8R...
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