From Skafia back to the North coast of Crete.
Some narrow winding and steep roads. A lot of grinding oif the gear teeth and a bit of sweating of the radiator.
The day was finished with a visit to KNOSSOS. A 4000 year old city of which a fair bit still remains.
A good nights rest was had just east of Hiraklion. In the morning an early runs to PLAKA were the drivers took a fishing boat SPINALONGA. I stayed on the Quay just watching them disappear, wondering what was going on.
SPINALONGA was a Leper colony until 1953 . A very interesting place. Marielle had read a book about it and was very well informed.
I could just see the island from my kitchen box
From there we went to AGIOS NIKOLAOS . \Quite nice but a bit of a tourist trap. Full of the well known souvenirshops.
Then we raced back to Heraklion to board the ferry back to Athens
Willy, 13 May 2009
(happy birthday Danielle)
welcome to Italy :
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Hello Poppy and Uncle Graeme,We love checking where your little jeep is travelling.It looks great.Miss you love Luke and Laura
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh here we are sitting on the Gold Coast drinking red wine and laughing pleased to see the ANZAC spirit is alive and snoring ....We hope Paris is more lively ..Thinking of you .Love Lou, Luke, Laura,Carol,Fay and Big Robert..
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