Historical destination! Well Kate and I thought we better do something meaningful on our voyage to Crete, so this morning we got on a “Greyhound” bus at 8:30 for our 2.5 hour mountain ride to Iraklion the capital city of Crete. The views were great despite the hairpin turns through the mountain! From the bus station in Iraklion we boarded a city bus to Knossos. Knossos is an ancient Minoan palace. It was built over 3500 years ago – though it was destroyed 3 times – once by volcano, once by fire and once by something else! Although most of the upper ruins and frescos are copies most of the original rocks which was made mostly by alabaster. It was incredible. We got a guided tour to learn more on our educating day! It is pretty amazing the brilliance of the Minoans so long ago with their engineering of their buildings, windows and water system. As our tour guide said “History repeats itself.” There were these large earthenware jars which they stored cereal, oil, grain, etc. As you can see by my picture how large these were.
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