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| Lost in Vai, Crete |
As we circumnavigate Crete we head to the far south (east) to
Kato Zakros http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakros,
an ancient Minoan settlement. Read the Wiki info for more detail. The roads to
get here are difficult and in some cases amount to goat trails, or 1 lane
shared paved sections, but the scenery at the end was worth it. Here we stayed at
Stella’s Apts. which was very nice.
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| Kato Zakros |
In the morning we headed off to Vai, a palm grove,
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| Vai |
the only
one on Crete, and it is believed it was brought there by the Minoan’s from Egypt
many centuries ago. Apparently it is now made popular by an English commercial
with it’s Palm trees, sand beach, and beach bunnies. I’ve tried to re-create
the scene as best I could. (Laugh)
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| Beach Bunnies in Vai |
From here we headed to Sitia, another port town on the
eastern side of Crete, one can catch a ferry infrequently to Rhodes from here.
As we ate lunch on the quay in Sitia we found an old statue of Romeo and
Juliet. We’ll have to look up its connection to Sitia.
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| Romeo and Juliet Statue |
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| Agios Nicholas |
Then onto Agios Nicholas, a larger port town some 64 kms
north from Sitia and a pretty place in its own right. We are staying at the
Creta hotel, run by a family who she Bernadette emigrated from Canada to Greece 21 years
ago from the Magdelana Islands ( a Quebec island in the St Lawrence Seaway).
She was so happy to see fellow Canadians she immediately said ( I love your
flag!). Apparently she goes back (home) every year but owns and operates the
hotel ( which is nice).
The last entry is about the Statue of “The Kidnapping of
Europa”. It is associated to Greek mythology, but the name Europa from Zeus, is
ultimately how Europe came to get its name. Now though, the statue erected here
is a joke, because Greece with its finances has kidnapped the economic power of
Europe with its problems.
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| The Kidnapping of Europa |
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