Up, Breakfast, on the bus for the short drive to the palace at Knossos. This is one of the largest and most significant archaeological sites in the world. The site is massive – covering over 8 acres. When it was originally excavated in the late 19th century archaeological standards were much different from today. So […]
Today started with breakfast in the top floor dining room at the hotel. Not a bad view and a nice balcony. Then it was back to bed for Cheryl (She only got 3 hours of sleep last night.) and studying for Randy. The next event was the 1:00 tour of Heraklion. We boarded the bus
It’s 12:45 AM on Tuesday the 14th. We had arrived at Heraklion, Crete and checked into our hotel. Considering that we left home at 10:30 Sunday morning, we’ve been on the road 29 hours and change. We’ve seen the insides of 4 airplanes and made 3 rather harried connections. But in the end, we’re all
All is in place. We’re packed, we allowed time to shovel the walks and we settled down to a quick breakfast and So…breakfast isn’t so quick after all, and we have time to get started on the blog, and, well… In the fullness of time we arrived at the airport. Plan B worked. We’re at
For some reason (I don’t know why) we slept late on Thursday. Springing from bed we quickly packed, breakfasted, checked out, and Ubered to the airport. We arrived in good time, cleared security very quickly and sat down to read for a couple of hours. The flight from MEX to SFO was uneventful (mainly because
Google Maps said the Anthropology museum was a half-hour walk down the Paseo de la Reforma from our hotel. So we figured, what the heck, it’s not raining and we only walked 3 miles yesterday, so we could do with a nice stroll down the avenue. The Paseo is a broad, tree-lined avenue commissioned by
There were only two items on the agenda today. 1. We arrived at the National Museum of Anthropology at about 10:00 and left at about 4:00. We were beat and we only covered about 1/3 of the museum. Here’s a photo. 2. This evening we attended a performance of the Ballet Folklorico de Mexico at
After breakfast we met our guide Ariushka (Ari) and took off on our tour of Mexico City. The first thing we encountered, of course, was traffic. We had read about Mexico City traffic but experiencing it first-hand was still amazing. On the plus side, while waiting at a traffic light we did get to see
This morning we packed up and said good-by to Kim and the boys. We were sorry to leave them. They had planned on spending the day with us but Spencer has come down with a pretty significant throat bug so they decided to turn us loose on our own (in the capable hands of Mr.
The day started slowly. Breakfast, eventually. Then… Mommy and Papa headed out to Walmart for those few remaining supplies needed to see us thru the last couple of days. After lunch we lazed a bit more before our excursion for the day – to the Zocalo. Once again, Carli and Te’a joined us. The Zocalo