Felt a bit more human after a kip and some breakfast. Met up with Mr Wolf who has been nuts enough to hire a car.

So taking our lives in our hands we set off for the ancient Minoan site of Knossos. the locals all drive like nutjobs and after an hour of lethal traffic dodging on bendy roads we arrived. first stop lunch in Taverna opposite the site.

Mr Wolf and the Moff had the Mousaka and Mrs F and I the stuffed toms, (almost as good as mine, impressed)plus a greek salad, chips and some vineleaves, and drinks all for 50 Euros not bad at all.

Then a good look around the site, royal palace, storerooms and the queen's (God bless her) flushing toilets, back in the car for an ice cream in Rythymo, said goodbye to Mr Wolf and back to the hotel for a bizzare meal of pasta and mini beefburgers in some kind of bolognaise sauce, oh well its inclusive.

Good to see the island has not changed too much, pavements are still pretty random with some lovely big pits you can fall into when it gets dark and plenty of scrawny cats wandering round the dining rooom.

Well must be off shipmates more later