Crepes.

once again i am still in Heraclion, the weather is clear and sunny bu tthe ferrys didnt arrive so here i sit in the sun.. :unch was crepes today and a photo of the fountain that i was looking at.

i have some local infomation about the haze on the horizan.

this apartly is caused by a wind from the south ie coming from liberia and hte edge of the Serri Desert, so all the yellow dust thti see yesterday is sand for the desert which falls with all the rain. (we had siome more over night but it was clear by morning.)

my knee is a bit sore . it is fairly sanderd when i walk as much as i do arround places that i will pull a musle somewhere but this has been a week now, this means i need to sit int eh sun a bit more.

News from greece is dominated by the Farmers going on stike. that is the orange , olive and grape growers. the govt promised them a bail out which has not yet materialized. there are tractors runing arround all over the place.

Retail Therapy

Yesterday I had this wonderful idea of catching the ferry to Santorini. which was supposed to leave this am at 8 am. ferry s are not very keen on traveling with force 9 winds. i told you it was windy the other day. somewhere out there in the Aegean sea there was force 9 winds. Don't ask me how fast force 9 winds are, cause i don't know. it was windy enough last night. so i want down the port and sat around while i figured this all out. the ferry is now due to leave tomorrow at 6 am. ( Like i want to got out of bed on vacation that early) the Lady at the port said i had to go to ticket agent down town and get my tickets changed to tomorrow. well it s been raining all morning so i was not oo keen. walked down at midday to find my old ticke t was just fine. so......

I decided on some retail therapy to cheer me up. I have walked past the markets heaps of times luckily today i found some really cool boots for dancing in. there are still sales everywhere. so for the total of 23 euros. i have some new shoes. I was getting frustrated at not finding anything i liked earlier. retail therapy works well for putting one in a better mood.
while i was at the port sorting things out this morning I got to meet a nice Greek man , who was waiting for his wife to pick up him ( 2 hours) we got to chatting , he was a pilot who works in Sweden , and wanted to practice his English, he d spent some time in CA learning to fly we even got our photo together. I am not sure that I got his name. nice guy though.


One of the things i was going to do yesterday was go to the Crete historical museum but it was closed , such is the joys of traveling this time of year. apparently they had a good display of joint operations of the kiwi's and Aussies did for Crete in the WW2.

well I am off to enjoy some more sun.

Knossoss Palace Crete.

the Minoan civilization.
When you palace gets burnt down you just build another one right on top. Hopefully the next one will last 1000 years not just 300. Its kinda interesting what they don't know. How can you burn down a marble palace. i guess there was lots of wood around as well.
Minos palace was destroyed in a conflagration. about 1350 BC. A man by the name of Evens spent 20 years digging it out from 1910 to 30 . he guessed alot. and used lots of concrete to stop further decay by the weather. it's really obvious where he did what. But i feel that the local Greek Archaeologists think he made some errors. i have definitely decided that seeing the museum yesterday is the right order to do things . it helped me understand what i was looking at today. buying the book is also useful. the local trees are the purple flower i think is called bougainvillea, for something close to it. and lots ofr wind blown pine trees. It got windy today. but it kinda added to the atmosphere in trying to go back 3500. years and imagine what life was like.

it only a 10 minute trip back to town, so spent the afternoon ambling around looking at the markets, walking past all these stores that sell good Italian handbags. so i now have a new hang bag. you know me Burgundy red.
I forgot to take my upload cable , so you will have to wait till tomorrow to yet a view.
i have decided that people on Crete are more friendly and easier to ask directions. I got totally lost walking around the shops.
I am not sure what tomorrow will bring I had ideas of the beach , but if this wind doesn't stop it wont be worth it, and I can always find another muesum.