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Women's Magical Tour of Greece and Crete
October 2001

Once again, Pat Hogan of Sounds 'n Furies in Vancouver, British Columbia organized the perfect vacation for us. The guide was ideal, the company grand, and the experience magical. The trip was in the second half of October 2001.
Susan created this page of links before the trip and added to it while creating the web album record of the trip (dates of latest additions noted in red).
The blue table takes you to the other pages of this Greece trip web album, created in December 2001.lor

GREECE HOME The Group Food Feast Flora Fauna House Music Dance Churches Museums Goddesses Priestesses Women of Power Others' Pics

TRAVEL HOME New Mexico Xmas 2005 Gila Mtns 2005 Malta 2003 Finger Lakes 2002 Greece 2001 New York City 2001 Cornwall 2000 New Mexico '99 Minnesota '97

Here are links to explore

• RECOMMENDED --Added Aug. 01 Harry's Greece Travel Guide:
  • General background and many specific tips
  • Highly practical tips on things like what to pack, electrical outlets, navigating the new Athens airport, taxis.
  • Boats, money, mail, phones, coffee and tea
  • Food and wine
  • Phonetic phrases
• GoGreece.com
• Currency converter
  Shortcut as of March 2001: chop two zeroes off the drachmas and divide by 4
• timeanddate.com
  • Athens (Athens is 7 hours ahead of us. They have daylight saving time -- DST -- as we do.)
  • Zurich (our layover; 6 hours ahead of us. One hour behind Athens. Also observes DST.)
• Weather (it was PERFECT! Sunny with highs about 80, 60s at night. The one rainy day was a museum day.)
  • Added Aug. 01: At GoGreeece.com (a general description of the seasons in different areas, with links to the average monthly temperatures throughout the year)
  • Added Aug. 01: Current conditions and satellite photos
  • Use the weather link at the top of any of our pages (it's to Weather Underground) and type in Heraklion Greece, or Athens Greece, for current conditions and forecast.

Greek Ministry of Culture

Provides basic info on each of the major sites we visited:

• Athens
  • Acropolis
  • Acropolis Museum
  • National Archaeological Museum of Athens
  • Museum of Cycladic Art
  • Added Dec. 2001: Museum of Greek Folk Art -- Here we learned, at the exhibition "Olympos on Karpathos", that in this village until the past century property passed from father to first-born son -- and from mother to first-born daughter.
  • Added Dec. 2001: Museum of Popular Instruments / Research Centre for Ethnomusicology
• Added Dec. 2001: Corinth
  • Fortress (Acrocorinthos)
  • Archaeological Site
  • Archaeological Museum
• Delphi (pronounced dell - fee, emphasis on first syllable
  • Archaeological Site
  • Archaeological Museum
• Eleusis (pronounced ell - eff - cease, emphasis on last syllable
  • Archaeological Site
  • Archaeological Museum
• Rhamnous (pronounced as is looks, emphasis on second syllable)
• Aegina (pronounced long "a" - ginna, emphasis on first syllable)
  • Aphaia's Sanctuary
  • Archaeological Museum
• Crete
  • Prefecture of HERAKLEION (pronounced ear - ahk - lee - on, emphasis on second syllable)
    • Cave of Eileithyia (went to Skotino cave instead; see Other Links below)
    • The Palace of Knossos
    • The Palace of Phaistos
    • Archaeological Museum of Herakleion
  • Parts of Crete we'll miss on this trip
    • Prefecture of CHANIA (west)
    • Prefecture of LASITHI (east)
• The Ministry's site has maps of various areas, with links to further information. (I got all of the links above from these maps.)
  WARNING: From the home page map, you have your choice of interactive or noninteractive map. You'll need the latest and greatest browser with various bells and whistles ("plug ins") -- and probably a PC rather than a Mac (boo hoo!) -- for these interactive maps to work. The links here are to the noninteractive maps. You end up at the same pages, either way.
  • Home map
    • Note that you can turn the interactive feature on or off at this page
  • Map of Athens
  • Map of Phokis (Delphi)
  • Map of Crete

Other Links