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Greece - Crete (1/1)

We docked at Hania, went to Knossos, and then were briefly in the unpleasant town of Iraklio.

I do love auto-inflating rafts.
Looking at Hania (Xania, Chania) harbour
Can we go?  Can we?  Pleeeeeeease?!  (We didn't.  I didn't really want to.
Clare, more awake than me after a night sleeping on a bit of floor on the ferry.
Cool Byzantine (?) lighthouse (?)
lighting along the right hand side of previous picture
Clare at the top of the lighthouse
Clare hiding in a nook on the breakwall that takes you to the lighthouse
Random ruins in Iraklio, mid-excavation.
Next to the same ruins, looks like they were found during a building project and then partly restored or something.  Note the sink hanging on the wall.
Ruins
Partly restored ruins at Knossos
Replica wall painting.
Replica wall painting
They had air shafts and stuff to promote air circulation.  "Earliest air conditioning", perhaps.
Plumbing & drainage.
Clare with very large water jugs
<a href="http://www.mmtaylor.net/Holiday2000/Crete/masons_marks/masons.html">Masonic</a> trident carved into the plumbing work
Masonic double-axe (vertical)
Masonic 6-star
Clare on the "oldest road in Europe"
Bye!
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