Heraklion

Found a good place for running in the mornings

Lots of joggers, runners and walkers on early mornings

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Kings & Queens

Bought 2 Greek shower gels and a body butter

by Kings & Queens

in Heraklion

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Sultan of Granada

Lemon Flower Showergel

&

Body Butter

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"During the long lasting dynasty of the Nasrid Sultans,

the Spanish city of Granada was famous, among others,

for its magnificent gardens.

Every spring and summer,

the blooming lemon trees sent over walls

and into the palaces the scent of Paradise"

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King of Sumatra

Pepper Bergamot Showergel

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"Black pepper was the most sought after spice f

rom antiquity until the Middle Ages.

One of the best qualities comes from Sumatra

where legends about the constant struggle between

local kings, colonialists and pirates are still alive"

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All the Kings & Queen producst are enriched with

Pomegranate, Blue Egyptian Lotus and Malachite extracts.

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- lovely refreshing products, not too strong scents

- the body butter is not a luxury product but good for dry skin

www.forkingsandqueens.com

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Kalives

Friday morning rented a Suzuki Jeep

and drove to Kalives

- small, quite unspoiled holiday resort app. 30km east of Chania

- took 2h to drive from Heraklion,

motorway almost all the way

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Riverside cafe in Kalives
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Small clear-water river coming down from the mountains
- ice-cold water
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2 sandy beaches on Souda Bay
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Lunch at Kritiko restaurant in Kalives

Stuffed mushrooms

- fantastic!
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Cretan dry bread

- didn't like the white cheese on it, wasn't feta
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Chocolate cake and sweet wine on the house
"Sweet wine for the sweet ladies

and strong wine for the strong men"
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Small streets of Kalives

Lots of ducks
Small harbour
The sea water was so warm
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Dinner by the sea

Keftedes
Small fried fish
Shrimp saganaki with unpeeled shrimps

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Thursday dinner in Crete

There are several smallish tavernas

near the seafront on Grevenon street.

Chose this one:

Paraskevas - Seafood taverna

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Not so busy on Thursday night

Should have taken a long-sleeve cardigan or something,

quite windy
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Keftedes

Shrimp saganaki

Anchovis

Dessert with raki on the house

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View from the balcony

Cars with loud music driving around the town!

Shoe shopping

Lots of nice shops in Heraklion!
Max Mara, Hugo Boss, Zara Home...
&
special small shops selling different brands
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Spanish Uterqüe has the same owner as Zara
- nice, stylish shop of shoes, bags, clothes, jewellery for women
- first shop was launched in March 2008

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Bought a pair of white flat sandals
and a silk top & cardigan
at Uterqüe
http://www.uterque.es/
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A shop called Forego was having clearance
and sold 2 pairs of label shoes in price of one!
Bought a pair of red Moschino Jeans sandals
& got silver Exté ones "free",
Just couldn't resist the temptation...
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There was no Sephora like in Rhodes,

nor Douglas or Marionnaud,

instead there 's Votre

- perhaps local?

In the main Votre at Liontaria square

on 3rd floor there are Longchamp and Stefanel

- bought a linen scarf from Longchamp

and white pants from Stefanel

- received a bit funny free gifts:A cap, 2 lighters and huge amount refreshing towels
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Wednesday dinner in Crete

Loggia

The club of the Venetian nobility in Handakas

always played an important role

in the city's governmental and social life.

The building was two-storied with a rectangular floor plan

and had an open loggia on the main level.

It was designed in 2 different architectural styles:

Doric on the main level and

Ionic on the first floor.

The building was destroyed and re-built 3 times;

Francesco Morosini rebuilt the Loggia in the place

where it survives today,

and added a new building for the storage of arms,

the Armeria,

where the Municipality office is housed today.
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Agios Titos

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For the dinner chose a place on the same small street as had lunch.

The name of the taverna is as said on the picture:

Raki & sweet orange peels on the house

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Day after Samaria

Next day after Samaria remember:
it's not the age, it's the mileage....

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Had a kind of lazy day,
just walked in the town,
sat in cafes,
visited a couple of museums

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This will happen when starting digging the ground

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Nice small entrance
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Would be a challenging interor project,
some outside renovation as well
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Visited a small museum of
the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance 1941-1945
- would have been more interesting if
the documents and explanations
had been translated from Greek
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After that visited
the Historical Museum of Crete

Reconstruction of a Venetian wall fountain
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A part of an interior of a typical old Cretan house
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Reconstruction of a room of Cretan author Nikos Kazantzakis
with the original furniture
- by the way, bought "Zorba the Greek"
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These are the 2 paintings by El Greco
which were the only ones retained in Crete
The larger one:
View of Mt. Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine
1570-1572
The smaller one:
The Baptism of Christ1567/8-1570
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Spanish people gave a nickname
El Greco
to Cretan painter Domenicus Theotocopoulos
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After the museum tour

had a relaxing moment at Mare Cafe by the sea

- place for the bold & beautiful in Heraklion
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Went for a lunch to Terzaki.

Nice small street with tavernas
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The delicious chocolate cake and raki were on the house
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Ouzeri tou Terzaki

L. Marinelli 17