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Greece 2007

In August 2007, we have just decided to flown "last minute" for 2 weeks to Crete. We have taken a hotel with a very central location as we wanted to explore the island on your own. We then directly rented a car for 6 days, a Hyundai Atos! On the streets of Crete, I felt partly present as on a go-kart track, that was fun!

On the first day we went to the east, our stations were: Agios Nikolaos, the mountain village of Kritsa, Sitia, the palm beach in Vai and Ierapetra. The archaeological site of Phaistos, the beach and the caves of Matala, the monastery Prevelis, Rethymno and the Arkadi Monastery were among others targets on the second day. The third day went west, where we were in the cities of Sfakia and Chania and an the beach of Elafonisi. We then stayed overnight in Omalos, because we wanted to go early in the morning to the Samaria Gorge. I wanted to walk the gorge necessarily down and up again, we managed the 18 km and 1200 meters down to Agia Rumeli in about 3 1/2 hours. After a small dip in the crystal clear sea, we then hiked the gorge again, with the last three kilometers were the longest of my life. Then we had to drive back to Akrotiri Chersonissou. On the fifth day we were a little bit down, and have gone from one bank to the next in the archaeological site of Knossos. Then we were still in Iraklion and in the Lassithi plateau. As we have already seen everything that was on our schedule, we again have driven to Matala and spent the day at the beach.

In the second week then there were two day trips to Athens and Santorini. Overnight, we went by boat from Heraklion to Piraeus and then by metro to Athens. There we visited some sights (Acropolis, Theatre of Dionysus, Ancient Agora, National Archeological Museum, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Kallimarmaro, Kerameikos) and again in the evening we took the boat back to Crete. On a second day trip we went by boat from Iraklion to Santorini. There we explored the town of Fira.

That was our vacation in Greece, it was quite exhausting, but we have also seen a lot and get many impressions.

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