All my life I've loved the legend of the Minotaur and so we headed over to Knossos on the bus. It's the acheaological site of the palace of King Minos and the site according to acheologists, where the myth of the mintoaur spawned from. Apparently the word Labyrinth is two words meaning House of Axes, but people who visited or came after transalted that to mean, a complicated palace. The palace had over 1000 rooms and to people seeing it for the first time thought that it was a maze and so the translation shifted from House of Axes to maze. Anyhow, it was a very interesting tour and we had a great time learning about all the crazy technologies that the Minoans had. 5000 years ago the minoans had fresh water piped from the hills and a sewar system built under the floor of the palace to hide the smell. I for some reason though the first aqueducts were built by Romans but these guys had it all before hand.
Throne of King MinosAnyhow, that's my garbled history lesson, but it was informative and cool to see!
That night, we wandered around town trying to get our bearings and basically took it easy. It's a nice place and I found a little cafe that serves the best panekoken ever! In the evening we wandered down to crazy town to check it our for real and holy crap, it was nutso down there. There must have been like twenty or thirty nightclubs in a row all pounding out the music, we wandered the whole strip and walked back. It was entertaining, but not what we came to Crete for so the next day we decided to rent a car!
Probably what everyone else on this crazy street was seeing...
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