Upcoming holidays:

Upcoming Holidays:
25 January 2025 - Sandy is taking a four day cruise - Sydney to Hobart and return.
April 2025 - Not a cruise! - instead a trip to Brisbane to watch the Panthers vs Dolphins game, and of course to see the family.
August 2025 - And again, not a cruise! - a weekend in Sydney to see Star Wars: A New Hope, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the music live.
27 September 2025 - Slightly early celebration for Paul's 70th birthday - 7 day Barrier Reef cruise on the Carnival (ex-P&O) Encounter.
August - September 2026 - 12 day "British Isles with France and Belfast" cruise on the Majestic Princess then a stay in the UK afterwards.


Saturday, 17 September 2016

UK and Med Cruise - Day 11 - 15 September - Heraklion, Crete

Our tour today was called 'Heraklion on your own'.  Basically they drove us into town, gave us a map, took us for a short walk around the streets of the old town and then said they'd meet us in the same place in four hours.
I had done some research into what we could see, so we went straight back to the Archaeological Museum.  Spent a fair bit of time there actually, there were a lot of displays and they were set out and explained really well.
We then found our way down to the docks and wandered out to look at the Venetian fort.  Unfortunately you can only look at it from the outside, but it's a seriously impressive piece of architecture:


We then had a walk along the shoreline before going back into the town to escape the heat.  Had an early dinner in a nice restaurant, back to the ship and then crashed.

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