Heraklion

Monday, July 13, 2009

Found a good place for running in the mornings

Lots of joggers, runners and walkers on early mornings

Thursday dinner in Crete

Saturday, July 4, 2009

There are several smallish tavernas

near the seafront on Grevenon street.

Chose this one:

Paraskevas - Seafood taverna

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

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

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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

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

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

This will happen when starting digging the ground

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

Monday dinner in Crete

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Monday dinner on a terrace of a taverna nearby the hotel

Quiet Monday evening,
just some locals and Italians
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Had grilled small fish
- no idea of the name!
- very delicious, prawn-like taste
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Naturally had also horiatikii, tsatsiki, dolmades, fried zucchini
with some house white wine
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Sunday dinner in Crete

Monday, June 29, 2009

Looked for a fish taverna,
but ended up to a terrace next to Agios Titos church
- there was no name of the place,
but the food was excellent!
No tables inside just a kitchen.