It's Raining Cats and Dogs... in Athens??

well it's been almost 3 weeks since my last update, that went by fast! There has been so many things going on here I don't seem to be noticing the time go by. Last week we took a school trip to Crete. It was a 10 hour ferry ride from Athens to the 3rd largest city in Greece, Irakleion, which is actually a nice city. As soon as we got off the boat we started our archeological explorations with CYA Delta Force, headed by the Thornberries, Nigel and Stephanie Kennel. We saw Knossos, along with half the people in the world! After we hiked up a very large hill/small mountain to see ancient grave sites only to discover the gate was locked! but never fear Nigel had a plan... we would hop the fence. After walking the entire perimeter of this extremely remote and large grave site we found a spot we could easily hop over. After we were allowed to go back to the hotel and nap and get ready for dinner. My new friend Deedee and I decided to meet Alex and Arielle for dinner by the water. But would just couldn't seem to find them anywhere.... the next day Arielle informs me that in fact we weren't actually in the same city!
The next day we took another hike to the ancient town of Eleutherna. As a nice detour we discovered some Hellenistic cisterns carved out of the bed rock. We had lunch in a little town nearby and were invited to watch the men there make Raki. We were then led on another hike down a mountain to another ancient village with a very nice Byzantine basillica. We spent the night in Rethymno which is in the middle north of Crete and very pretty.
Thursday we saw a Venitian fort and then were on or way to the gorgeous city of Chania. We had the day free to explore Chania and decided we all were ready for a day at the beach. The water was very warm and very sandy. We had dinner on the harbor at a nice resturaunt and tried to no avail to find a bouzoukia.
On our last day we hiked a 6 mile gorge called Agia Irini, which was magnificent and then had a day of swimming before we go tback on the boat to Athens.
Being back in Athens has been nice, and being back into a routine. I am starting to really feel at home here.
I'll try and be more vigilant on this blog thing in the future
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