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Bin away on a short break to Crete we were doing a guided Archaeology tour.
Here's a few pictures
This is the old town of Rathenon
On one of our wonders came across this bit of kit I think they were chucking it out of an old cinema, my boss put her foot down and wouldn't let me bring it back.
This is a Manoan tomb
And one of the less known Minoan palaces.
This is the main central plane on Crete
We went on a day boat trip to the island Sanotorine, the island is a volcanic caldera still active the island it self erupted around 2000 Bc and brought an end to the Minoan culture.
On the crossing the boat had to make a detour to check out this boat drifting empty in the middle of the sea.
They put it down to illegal immigrants trying to make their way to Europe what happened to the passengers, no one could say.
This is the central cone of the volcano, the rest of the island encircles it a bit like a half moon.
The houses hang onto the inner lip of the volcano rim, the locals have moved out to the outer edge where their is less risk from earthquakes and turned these houses over to hotels and such like.
The area is known for the blue domed churches.
And hot dogs
Back on Crete we visited Konosos the main Minoan palace on the island its bin partially restored to give you an idea of the level of sophistication of the culture that thrived over 4000 years ago.
Stew
Here's a few pictures
This is the old town of Rathenon
On one of our wonders came across this bit of kit I think they were chucking it out of an old cinema, my boss put her foot down and wouldn't let me bring it back.
This is a Manoan tomb
And one of the less known Minoan palaces.
This is the main central plane on Crete
We went on a day boat trip to the island Sanotorine, the island is a volcanic caldera still active the island it self erupted around 2000 Bc and brought an end to the Minoan culture.
On the crossing the boat had to make a detour to check out this boat drifting empty in the middle of the sea.
They put it down to illegal immigrants trying to make their way to Europe what happened to the passengers, no one could say.
This is the central cone of the volcano, the rest of the island encircles it a bit like a half moon.
The houses hang onto the inner lip of the volcano rim, the locals have moved out to the outer edge where their is less risk from earthquakes and turned these houses over to hotels and such like.
The area is known for the blue domed churches.
And hot dogs
Back on Crete we visited Konosos the main Minoan palace on the island its bin partially restored to give you an idea of the level of sophistication of the culture that thrived over 4000 years ago.
Stew
