May 13, Knossos
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Daily Activities May
 

  1. Thursday
    Departure

  2. Friday
    First day

  3. Saturday
    OnTheBeach

  4. Sunday
    Dinner

  5. Monday
    To old city

  6. Tuesday
    Last dancing morining.

  7. Wednesday
    Knossos trip

  8. Thursday
    BackHome

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A long day's trip to the ruins of Knossos, some 7000 years old.

To the left, the notice board used for communicating to the participants.

To the right, the bare tree in the restaurant area.
Off to Knossos ruins. Sissel making a count of the participants on the trip.

Martins happily settled in the bus.
The landscape on route to the ruins.

There are some snow capped mountains on route, reaching more than 2500 above sea level.
Our bus. May-Lis departing the bus.

An old dusty car in a forgotten garage.
Toilet visits are important and only one of them makes for queues. Especially for the ladies.

Then there were queues and queues again.
Stones from 5-7000 years back.

More stones.
Nice trees gave nice shades under the scorching sun.

More stones.
Some of the ruins where rebuilt by an English man for more than 100 years ago.

Martin in the rubble heap.
And more queues.

And more stones.
Krister guide making a point.

Jars used for storing food stuff.
A broken jar.

And even more queues for seeing for stones.
Basement for storing food.

Krister in action.
Rebuild temple heights.

Not really fitting in.
Stone heap on mountain top.

Nice, green trees.
Martin on the way out.

Martin glad the 80 minutes stone wandering is over.
Lunch with the Martins and Kristine.

Monument over the war dead. And Crete has many.
Arkadi Monastery that was blown up by the Cretans during a siege by the Muslim Turks in 1869.

The church was rebuilt using the original stones.
The arch way where the monks lives even today.

Martin having a seat inside the church.
Nice flowers outside.

Very well kept garden. The monks are quite busy.
The road back.

Having a beer. This is the way the make a canvas for the sun. Make the branches grow horizontally by weighing them down with water bottles.
Back at the hotel and the bar.

The Martins with Marianne. We went to town together.
Martin T and Marianne on the way to the restaurant.

Martin I and Marianne by the sea.
The sunset.

Our restaurant chefs on the street.
Back to the bar and some late dancing before going to bed.  

The next day, Thursday May 14th there were a strike on Crete and we were delayed for 2 hours.
 

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