Saturday, May 12

A day in the west

HAD A great trip by coach to the west of the Island today. Had a chance to visit Arkadi Museum, the amazing church built into the rocks at Patsos, then it was timein the very tourist area of Rethymno before a extra treat, stopping on the way home to Fodele, birthplace of the great El Greco.
  Arkadi has great history  stretching back to the wars with the Turks, when, rather than surrender, the patriotic Greeks blew themselves up. The building where that happened has never been re-built, in tribute to their history.
 

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