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Gouves – Agios Konstantinos

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:05:14 +0000

The Orthodox Church of Saints Constantine and Helen is located right by the sea.

Malia - Laundry

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:00:38 +0000

Malia is first mentioned in 1390. The very first hotel to be built here dates back to the early 1960s. Since then, tourism has boomed, with Malia attracting mainly young tourists, particularly British holidaymakers aged between 18 and 30 who are looking for a holiday combining partying and relaxation

What is now known as the "Malia Strip" therefore bears a strong resemblance to Agia Napa on Cyprus – and just like there, everything is in hibernation in January.
This laundry, located in the village stays open over the winter. Not really the long ours of the summer season, but at least from 9 - 12 and from 15 - 20.

Malia - Ford Consul Classic

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:46 +0000

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The Ford Consul Classic was built by Ford UK from 1961 to 1963.
As the car was complex and expensive to produce it was already replaced in October 1963 by the Ford Corsair.

Only 111,225 Classics were produced, here is one of the survivors.

Malia - Ford Consul Classic

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:54:08 +0000

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Malia - Spar

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:38:07 +0000

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Malia - McDonald’s

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:27:52 +0000

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Malia - Go-Go

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:16:58 +0000

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Malia - Booze Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:52:32 +0000

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Agios Nikolaos - Wash and Go

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:38:07 +0000

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The name Agios Nikolaos comes from the church of Agios Nikolaos, which dates back to the 9th or 10th century and is one of the oldest intact churches in Crete.

Compared to that, the name of "wash and go", a chain of self service laundries on Crete, is way younger

Agios Nikolaos - Wash and Go

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:23:51 +0000

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Ierapetra - Archaeological Collection

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:07:36 +0000

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Ierapetra - Archaeological Collection

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:13:15 +0000

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Ierapetra - Archaeological Collection

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Ierapetra - Archaeological Collection

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Ierapetra - Archaeological Collection

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:42:12 +0000

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Ierapetra - Archaeological Collection

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:01:10 +0000

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Ierapetra is the southernmost city in Europe (excluding Cyprus) and the fourth-largest city in Crete.

In ancient times, the city was called Hierapytna. The earliest remains of the city date back to the fifth century BC. It was an important Dorian city in eastern Crete. The city of Gortyn surpassed Hierapytna's importance as an independent state when Hierapytna was conquered by the Romans in 67 BC. The city was severely damaged during the Arab conquest in 824 but was subsequently rebuilt. It experienced a new period of prosperity during the Venetian period from the 13th to the 17th centuries.

The Archaeological Collection is housed in the building of an Ottoman School that was built in 1899.

Minoan Larnax

known as the Episkopi Larnax (named after the find spot).

It appears as though all the human figures are descendants of the Cyclopes. A chariot race is visible on the left, above the octopus. Shepherds appear at the bottom right and top left, and ibexes at the top right.

Detail: one of the one-eyed shepherds

13th c BC.

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The Odyssey, attributed to Homer, was first composed around the 8th or 7th century BC. It tells the story of the Cyclops Polyphemus, who was blinded by Odysseus.

They story (and many others) may be way older as parts of long oral traditions.

Ierapetra - Archaeological Collection

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:51:57 +0000

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Ierapetra - Archaeological Collection

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Ierapetra - Archaeological Collection

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:47:07 +0000

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Heraklion - Archaeological Museum

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:48:15 +0000

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Crete, the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, is located about 100 km south of the Peloponnese. Crete was the center of Europe's first advanced civilization, the Minoans, from 3000 to 1400 BC. The Minoan civilization was overrun by the Mycenaean civilization from mainland Greece. Crete was later ruled by Rome, then successively by the Byzantine Empire, Andalusian Arabs, the Byzantine Empire again, the Venetian Republic, and the Ottoman Empire. In 1898 Crete, whose people had for some time wanted to join the Greek state, achieved independence from the Ottomans, formally becoming the Cretan State. Crete became part of Greece in December 1913.

Heraklion is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete. With a municipal population of about 180.000 it is the fourth largest city in Greece. The greater area of Heraklion has been continuously inhabited since at least 7000 BCE, making it one of the oldest inhabited regions in Europe. As a major center of the Minoan civilization it often considered Europe's oldest city.

The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is one of the largest museums in Greeceand the best in the world for Minoan art, as it contains by far the most important and complete collection of artefacts of the Minoan civilization of Crete.

The museum began in 1883 as a simple collection of antiquities; it was about the time when the Minoan civilization was beginning to be rediscovered, and shortly before the first excavations using proper scientific methods. It was also during the period when Crete was a virtually autonomous part of the Ottoman Empire, after the Pact of Halepa of 1878, later followed by the independent Cretan State (1898-1913). The political situation helped to keep Cretan finds on the island during a crucial period of discoveries.

The museum is located in the town centre. It was built between 1937 and 1940 on a site previously occupied by the Roman Catholic monastery of Saint-Francis which was destroyed by earthquake in 1856.

Clay model of a dance scene with four men on a circular dancing floor.

Kamilari 1500 - 1450 BC