More Pictures!

Yesterday it rained in Heraklion, which is rare enough - supposedly it was the first June rain in decades. Even rarer, though, was that the city was covered with a dusting of sand from the Sahara desert, brought north over the sea by windstorms and caught in the rainfall. Every surface has a coating of sand that looked similar to pollen, and I can still it on the streets.


Today we visit a winery owned by Yanni, and then get back on the overnight ferry to Athens. In two days I'll be on my own.


The jail Socrates was held in before his execution:






















Sunset from the highest point in the city:

















Famous Venetian fort wall, watching over the harbor and guarding a harbor wall well over a kilometer long (don't know exactly) - took over an hour to walk both ways:






















Heraklion, by the old Venetian City Wall:























The ancient Minoan palace of Knossos, one of the largest, oldest buildings in the world

























The 2004 Olympic grounds:






















Lunch in Monastiraki, downtown Athens:
















Another country village on the way to Delphi: