More Old Stuff

Today we headed out to the Heraklion Archeology Museum. This museum has been closed since early 2006 for renovation, but in October last year the Greek government opened up and indefinitely temporary permanent exhibition that houses some of the major Minoan works (which I take to mean that they have bought themselves about 10 more years before the main museum has to be completed). It was a great little museum, with most of the important Minoan works that were uncovered at Knossos – The Snake Goddess (not the lady that you’d want for a kindergarten teacher), the guilded bull, and lots of double headed axes.

After walking through the museum we wandered back along the side streets, trying to get lost on our way to the hotel, but just kept running into café after café packed with 20 somethings drinking smoothies and Nescafe frappe and gazing out angstily from beneath their emo jet black long bangs and teased bouffant. Emo style is really big in Greece, to the degree that Ulises and I saw that there was a 2 hour long talk show about how dangerous it was (apparently there were Rockabilly kids versus Emo kids riots in Mexico City?) and how a makeover can fix everything. Very odd indeed.

We bought our ferry tickets to head over to Rhodes the next day, and finished up the evening with some pasta and shrimp at the Central Park Café in the Greco Park area, and packed up our bags - on to Rhodes tomorrow!