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The only thing we did was swimming, sunbathing and eating (btw, food was mmmmmmm), but I'll always find what to write here.
Firstly, once we went to closest town - Rethymno. By bus with tickets like that
Strolled on couple of streets, bought little presents for everybody and ourselves, ate ice-cream,
drank juice
also I took a pic with a guy, I felt so sorry for him, he was standing dressed like that in the heat and nobody took photos and gave money
Then we went to look at "Labyrinth of Minotaur", which is actually Knossos Palace. It was just kinda big and confusing, so they called it Labyrinth.
It was fail. Heat, many people, "actually, it's not ancient, but restored according to archeologist's intuition".
This crowd is standing to see an extant throne room.
Yeah, this one. It's a throne in the right, if somebody doesn't understand.
About this painting it was told that archeologists, who digged Knossos out, at first thought it's a girl. But then they found out girls were drawn with white skin, so they understood it's a boy. Really, there is no other way they could find it out.
All in all, conclusion is: don't go to look at something older than 1000 years in the summer. Last winter in Rome it was great: no heat and no crowds. I bet, now there are many sweaty tourists.
The second part of excursion was a tour to a capital of Crete - Heraklion, but it couldn't fix what was done to us.
Greek Lenin
For the second excursion we rode big boat (with 2000 people, 90% of them were Russians, and everybody around us was eating all the time, despite the fact the food was total shit).
At first, we were climbing a mountain, where fortress was situated.
View really was amazing
Photo is ok, smell realy isn't. Guys, who built this thing in the 16th century, hardly could think that some idiots in the 21st century would use it as toilet
After it there were some wild beach where Aegean, Ionian and Libyan seas are merged (actually, they all are one Mediterrian sea).
We get an umbrella on the boat, while we were walking on the beach I opened it but couldn't close, so had to go like that (it's not that easy).
But don't worry, my mom is much more communicative than me, so she asked some Czechs (presumably) and they successfully closed this umbrella.
Beach really is beautiful and these are probably the most sexy pics in my life
And with this view I was laying
And no! I can't be silent about horrible psychological injury I got. I'm standing, looking at a side and in this side little girl is unexpectadly sitting backward to me and starting to poo! Amazing. I wish somebody poos at her parents' doorstep. Btw, after it all their family left this place (not surprisingly).
Actually, our hotel was awesome. That's the view (but most of the time it was without a pie).
The pie actually is a hero of all pies. My granny baked it in Omsk, all its brothers were eaten by me in Saint-Petersburg and it happened to be on Crete. But I wasn't brave enough to eat it, so it's not known where its adventure finished, maybe in stomach of Greek homeless person.
And that't the view in the evening
Also, under our room there lived a man, he came with board and paddle but there was a storm in the sea all the time so he had to swim in the pool. And we laughed at him, bad people. Also, we thought he's German so weren't very silent with our jokes. And then we heard him speking Russian. Oops. But in the end he finally went to sea and was swimming really far away.
Also, under our room there lived a woman, she was always tanning topless, but I didn't take a pic of her, otherwise, I will had to put "18+" mark on my blog.
Also, while we were here, hotel for the 19th time got blue flag as hotel with awesome sea and beach.
For the end some random stuff.
German is just awesome. Brandsicherheitsvorkehrungen, guys.
Me is not me without photos of phones
And without road signs too
Cute Greek guys (but I took photo not because of them, just to have sample of Greek art of posters).
Some transport
P.S. Specially for the ones who read it till the end, as a bonus there is a piece of ancient Greek myth about how Minotaur appeared. Minos promised Poseidon to honor him the most in his kingdom if he would help Minos to become a king, but didn't make it. So Poseidon imbued to Minos' wife passion to a bull and voila! - we have Minotaur. How do you feel abot Greek folklore, ah?
3.07.2013
The only thing we did was swimming, sunbathing and eating (btw, food was mmmmmmm), but I'll always find what to write here.
Firstly, once we went to closest town - Rethymno. By bus with tickets like that
Strolled on couple of streets, bought little presents for everybody and ourselves, ate ice-cream,
drank juice
also I took a pic with a guy, I felt so sorry for him, he was standing dressed like that in the heat and nobody took photos and gave money
Then we went to look at "Labyrinth of Minotaur", which is actually Knossos Palace. It was just kinda big and confusing, so they called it Labyrinth.
It was fail. Heat, many people, "actually, it's not ancient, but restored according to archeologist's intuition".
This crowd is standing to see an extant throne room.
Yeah, this one. It's a throne in the right, if somebody doesn't understand.
About this painting it was told that archeologists, who digged Knossos out, at first thought it's a girl. But then they found out girls were drawn with white skin, so they understood it's a boy. Really, there is no other way they could find it out.
All in all, conclusion is: don't go to look at something older than 1000 years in the summer. Last winter in Rome it was great: no heat and no crowds. I bet, now there are many sweaty tourists.
The second part of excursion was a tour to a capital of Crete - Heraklion, but it couldn't fix what was done to us.
Greek Lenin
For the second excursion we rode big boat (with 2000 people, 90% of them were Russians, and everybody around us was eating all the time, despite the fact the food was total shit).
At first, we were climbing a mountain, where fortress was situated.
View really was amazing
Photo is ok, smell realy isn't. Guys, who built this thing in the 16th century, hardly could think that some idiots in the 21st century would use it as toilet
After it there were some wild beach where Aegean, Ionian and Libyan seas are merged (actually, they all are one Mediterrian sea).
We get an umbrella on the boat, while we were walking on the beach I opened it but couldn't close, so had to go like that (it's not that easy).
But don't worry, my mom is much more communicative than me, so she asked some Czechs (presumably) and they successfully closed this umbrella.
Beach really is beautiful and these are probably the most sexy pics in my life
And with this view I was laying
And no! I can't be silent about horrible psychological injury I got. I'm standing, looking at a side and in this side little girl is unexpectadly sitting backward to me and starting to poo! Amazing. I wish somebody poos at her parents' doorstep. Btw, after it all their family left this place (not surprisingly).
Actually, our hotel was awesome. That's the view (but most of the time it was without a pie).
The pie actually is a hero of all pies. My granny baked it in Omsk, all its brothers were eaten by me in Saint-Petersburg and it happened to be on Crete. But I wasn't brave enough to eat it, so it's not known where its adventure finished, maybe in stomach of Greek homeless person.
And that't the view in the evening
Also, under our room there lived a man, he came with board and paddle but there was a storm in the sea all the time so he had to swim in the pool. And we laughed at him, bad people. Also, we thought he's German so weren't very silent with our jokes. And then we heard him speking Russian. Oops. But in the end he finally went to sea and was swimming really far away.
Also, under our room there lived a woman, she was always tanning topless, but I didn't take a pic of her, otherwise, I will had to put "18+" mark on my blog.
Also, while we were here, hotel for the 19th time got blue flag as hotel with awesome sea and beach.
For the end some random stuff.
German is just awesome. Brandsicherheitsvorkehrungen, guys.
Me is not me without photos of phones
And without road signs too
Cute Greek guys (but I took photo not because of them, just to have sample of Greek art of posters).
Some transport
P.S. Specially for the ones who read it till the end, as a bonus there is a piece of ancient Greek myth about how Minotaur appeared. Minos promised Poseidon to honor him the most in his kingdom if he would help Minos to become a king, but didn't make it. So Poseidon imbued to Minos' wife passion to a bull and voila! - we have Minotaur. How do you feel abot Greek folklore, ah?
3.07.2013
