October 28, 2009 – Wednesday 8:00 am
We just finished breakfast and are getting ready to go on our tour of Knossos and the minotaur ruins. It is our first gray, rainy day but we have our umbrella so feel we will be just fine tromping around on this island.
2:10 pm - We’re back from our tour, another one we enjoyed a lot. The gray, rainy day turned into a sunny, humid day and then back again but we never opened the umbrella.
The palace ruins were very interesting. They date from around 1700 BC. I’m uploading some pictures of them and have plenty more in the camera. We then went to a very quaint village built in the hillside of a mountain. Lots of steep steps and winding narrow alleys with the shops in them. Beautiful arbors, cats and kittens everywhere and very friendly people. Mike and I have already agreed that the Greek people are a warm and hospitable people. The Crete people are even nicer than the mainland Greeks who seem quite bent on getting as much of your money as they can. Of course, they can’t hold a candle to the Egyptians!
More rest and relaxation. We are sure doing a lot of that. Of course, when I realize how much we are walking every day and on the rocky, steep terrain, its no wonder that we are so tired. My highest pedometer reading for a day was over 22,000 steps and I haven’t had one under 10,000 since we left the US. Even on the ship when we are having a day at sea, we are walking a lot. Wish they would just take the food off the ship and then all this exercise would actually do us some good.
All my electronics have taken their turn at being recharged. We are ready for Santorini tomorrow!
All for now, I’m going to the hotspot and upload to the blog (if all goes well), then we’ll go to dinner later and on to the show tonight which is a Spanish ballet. Sounds good!
We just finished breakfast and are getting ready to go on our tour of Knossos and the minotaur ruins. It is our first gray, rainy day but we have our umbrella so feel we will be just fine tromping around on this island.
2:10 pm - We’re back from our tour, another one we enjoyed a lot. The gray, rainy day turned into a sunny, humid day and then back again but we never opened the umbrella.
The palace ruins were very interesting. They date from around 1700 BC. I’m uploading some pictures of them and have plenty more in the camera. We then went to a very quaint village built in the hillside of a mountain. Lots of steep steps and winding narrow alleys with the shops in them. Beautiful arbors, cats and kittens everywhere and very friendly people. Mike and I have already agreed that the Greek people are a warm and hospitable people. The Crete people are even nicer than the mainland Greeks who seem quite bent on getting as much of your money as they can. Of course, they can’t hold a candle to the Egyptians!
More rest and relaxation. We are sure doing a lot of that. Of course, when I realize how much we are walking every day and on the rocky, steep terrain, its no wonder that we are so tired. My highest pedometer reading for a day was over 22,000 steps and I haven’t had one under 10,000 since we left the US. Even on the ship when we are having a day at sea, we are walking a lot. Wish they would just take the food off the ship and then all this exercise would actually do us some good.
All my electronics have taken their turn at being recharged. We are ready for Santorini tomorrow!
All for now, I’m going to the hotspot and upload to the blog (if all goes well), then we’ll go to dinner later and on to the show tonight which is a Spanish ballet. Sounds good!
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