Dear Mother:
I am sitting in an open-air café trying goat’s milk for the first and last time. It must be 90 degrees but there is a lovely breeze blowing. We arrived on the island of Crete at 3:30 p.m. yesterday after 7 hours on deck on a very rough ocean. Both Robert and I are excellent sailors as we have many hours left on the water before we return to Athens.
Iraklion, Crete
This is the largest city in Crete. We have a pension in town and it is too far from the beach. We will probably leave Crete on Saturday to go to another island. This island is far too touristy. We are seeing the ancient ruins of Knossos today then to the museum and finally to the beach. I don’t ever intend to return to Crete. I don’t like it here. Nor does Rob so we are going to push off. It is not only very hot but humid. I find the people here very grasping not at all like the other Greek islands.
Next day
We are headed to beach just having had breakfast. The sandy beach near us stretches for miles. We spent yesterday going through the Royal palace at Knossos. It is unbelievable they have uncovered an entire city. The archaeologists were busy digging in 3 or 4 sites. They number every stone and sift all the earth.
Last night Rob and I wandered around, had a late dinner and did not return until,11 p.m. I like eating outside as it is too hot to do anything else. We will leave here at 6 p.m. tomorrow sleeping on the boat for the island of Skiros. Then after a week to Skopelos and soon we must make our way back to Athens to prepare for our trip back home. If there are no planes flying out of Athens we will have to fly from Frankfurt and leave from there.
Love Marnee
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