Malia Beach
Cool tree at Malia Beach
Malia-- home of the vacationing British and half the world's jet skis
Malia
Katie at Malia Beach
Chersonissos
Our first room at the Lofos Apartments in Chersonissos
The Lofos Apartments in Chersonissos
The pool at Lofos
Katie lounging by the pool in her polka dot hat
The view from Lofos
Lofos pool
View from Lofos
Apartments at Lofos
Miss Kitty at Lofos-- watch out... she bites!
Katie Bear at Oliva restaurant in Piskopiano for our anniversary dinner
Kitty cat lounging in Piskopiano village
Mountains above Chersonissos
Wild Cretan mountain goats
sunset at Chersonissos
Church gate in Piskopiano
The view from our second apartment's porch
Another view
Another view from our apt.
The sea from our apartment
Olive trees
Lofos
Sunset at Chersonissos
Star beach Chersonissos
Star beach
Rocks and waves
Star Beach
Church on Star Beach (interesting juxtaposition considering that Star Beach is the home to all of Crete's drunken teenagers!)
Rocks and water at Chersonissos
Coral (?) at Star Beach-- the water was so clear!
Greek Flag at Star Beach
Church in Chersonissos
Mountain range above Chersonissos
Olive branches (and olives!)
Old Chersonissos town plaza
Fountain in old Chersonissos
Door of church in old Chersonissos
again
Old Chersonissos
Katie sampling Raki (Cretan fire water) at a local distillary on our "Unknown Crete" tour
The many varieties of Raki and Olive Oil
The still that makes the Raki (looks like Greek moonshine makin' to us...)
Natural shade in a small Greek village
small "unknown" Greek village
Steps in Greek village
village
Local pottery making
church (somewhere) in Crete
Kiln at local potter's-- so big!
Local potter's pet kitty cat (John's snuggle buddy)
Orthodox church
Cool statue-- maybe you can identify the figures for us
The Greeks know it's the real thing
Greek WWII memorial
from the bus-- it was this pretty everywhere we went
Mirtos-- a small town on the southern coast-- 2 hours from AFRICA!!!!!!
Mirtos beach-- we went swimming here!
Katie at Mirtos
we dined here in Mirtos
more Mirtos
Mirtos
The Libyan sea at Mirtos
Katie having lunch at Mirtos
Katie's lunch at Mirtos
Sharing lunch (fish heads!) with a friend at Mirtos
A sailboat at Mirtos
Close up of the sailboat at Mirtos
Kalamafka-- the narrowest part of Crete, where you can see both the North and South coast
Kalamafka
a church on a hill at Kalamafka
This hat would not have stayed on my head without the goofy pose-Kalamafka was Really windy!
Knossos palace ruins-- the capitol of the Minoan civilization. It is regarded as the earliest culture in European history.
Knossos
Knossos-- original clay vessel that would have been used for storing olive oil, honey, goat's milk or wine
view from Knossos
throne room at Knossos
Katie at Knossos
ancient plumbing at Knossos-- they had flush toilets in 1750 bc!!!
Kitty cat at Knossos
example of ancient wine press at the Minoa winery in the Peza wine region-- Crete
Katie at a fountain dedicated to Poseidon-- Irakleio city center
Irakleio market. Irakleio is the capitol of Crete.
view from our apartment
view of pool from our apartment
View from our apartment
sunset from our apartment
a garden
Mezes in Koutoulefari village above Chersonissos-- the best restaurant we found. It was like greek Tapas.
