Our trip back to Crete was an easy 35 minute ride on Agean Airlines.  Unfortunately, I am now short one bottle of Ban roll-on deodorant. TSA flagged my bag and pulled out the offending deodorant and held it up with pride.  Voila!  This contains 103 milliliters of deodorant!  The maximum is 100 milliliters.  We have you dead to rights you fresh smelling terrorist!  Not to be outdone, Jean is now short one small nail file.  We are definitely cagey characters but we couldn’t outsmart Athens airport security.

We arrived back in  Chania, Crete about 8:00pm and taxied to our room at the American Navy Base.  Now for a new look at Crete.  Crete is a magnificent island.  We have been here before but this lovely island deserves another look.  We took one down day to do laundry and catch our breath.  On Thursday, we rented a car and headed for the Palace of Knossos near Iraklion.  It’s about a two hour drive west and definitely worth the time. This place has been inhabited since about 6000bc and the palace (Palatial Period) has been here since about 3000bc.  The Minoan civilization was a sophisticated and modern society.  As you walk among the ruins, you can imagine the people who lived here had the same trials as you and I.  Making a living, raising a family and bitching about the government.  Nothing has really changed all that much.  We just do it faster and post it on Facebook.