Crete
Trip Start
Jun 17, 2010
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Trip End
Jul 01, 2010
Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece
Thursday, June 24, 2010
This morning we took a tour to see the palace of Knossos. It was built and rebuilt from 3000 BC to Greek and Roman times. As I was amazed by that marble bowl in the museum in Santorini, I was equally impressed with the high level of art, technology and architecture in the early Minoan culture. They were a peace-loving people who lived happily there for a thousand years until they started getting overrun by everyone- Greeks, Ottomans, Romans. Their goddess was Demeter and they were a female oriented culture. Of course, I like that!
Just wanted to ask you all to email me at my coxmail address for the rest of the trip ( if you are going to send an email for more personal talk). Of course, you can comment here on Travelpod and I will get the messages, as will everyone who reads this blog. Turkey does not recognize ATT data plans for my I Phone so texts and email and internet will cost a small fortune. I can check my coxmail account from the ship though with no problem.
Tomorrow we go to Rhodes. I love the beauty of all of this but Frank is in hog heaven with the history!
Comments
Sounds like a perfect combination of history and beauty--just my type of trip! Are you seeing any of the political strife/strikes we hear about here in the news?
A female oriented culture. Yeah, I like too ;^D