Years of Poems and Spirits

Had a good night’s sleep
Had a good breakfast.
Got flight ticket off Santorini. Hard to find tickets! Helpful agent.
Visited Arch. museum. Reading books ahead. Very fascinated by Minoan culture
Museum has no audio guides. Excellent collections but poor descriptions and almost none context. Like a warehouse. Generally poor illuminations. Horrible bathrooms
Minoans were incredible craftsmen: potteries, jeweries, seals, fresco. Most decorative. Daring patterns. Full of imaginations and showoffs.
Pottery in the shape of flowers. Bull head. 2 Bee+honey comb ear ring/pin.
Beyond the needs of daily usage. Very maticulous, elaborate and painstakingly detailed.
Reading Crete mythology like reading a porn novel. Islanders must be peace loving (not war making). Cities had no fortifications.
ladies in beautiful dresses, hair style. Heard this before. Seeing still impressive. beautiful female profile. Minoans were keen at capture object essences: abstract but adequte: dogs, bulls and hippos.
Declining creativities towards the end? No sculptures. Figures extremely primitive. Not even on par with fresco. The Festos Disc: unbelieveable delicate piece of mistry. Linked to Linear A scripts.
Knossos Palace: seen model in museum. Unbelieveable complexity 3700 yrs ago. 1500 rooms. Huge court, grandeous design. Seen the toilet/sewage. Seen some in Festos/3 saints but not so clear. Much better documented, restored than Festos. Doves on the tree as in the acient model. Sir Author Evans: curious to know his role in shaping the current interpretion. Took 35 yrs to restore/illustrate original state. Tried to distinguish the original/restored pieces.
At least has some tour guides. Ours very intense. Brush eye browse. inject personal opinions from metaphysics to reproduction. Urban legend run amock. Not sure what’s known, what’s speculated, what other speculations. Will learn more later.

Another big dinner, same restaurant. same waiter. Not sure who is more embarassed. Car rental also sent us to ferry dock. huge ferry. smooth ride.

beautiful moon and sea. Santorini cliff in the night. scary drive along the cliff. 50euro room plus rental car!

Sleek travel agent
Song drove for the first time!
Lunch on the beach cafe. Nice beach. A lot topless.
Heraklion: same driving pattern as in Hania but day light helps.
Hotel Megaron: luxury at middle class prices. Extra nice. Help desk recommended a local restaurant. Had a huge meal. Waiter impressed.
Walked to harbor after dinner. People fishing, sunflower seeds. Big ferry docking, fast.
Roof top cafe: view of the city in the night. beautiful harbor/archway. ferry floating to horizon.

Reythmno: busy beach, visited Venitian castle, crazy driving: winding road, passing cars, road side shops. Striking weather while passing mountain passes, elegant mountains/peaks, villages along the way, small, quiet, occasional fancy cars. endless olive trees

Hania: ancient regional capital. Arrived late. Impossible to drive in the dark: narrow street, irreversable one way streets, few locals speak english, always 3 minutes drive/walk.
Noisy streets in the night, small rooms, didn’t sleep well.

Trying to get ferry tickets. Fewer ferries during offseason. Fast boats all booked.