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gttexas: On our bus trip to Heraklion, the site of the palace, we made a "pit stop" along the way. This is the entrance to the Cretan bakery at the rest stop.
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gttexas: All kinds of goodies on display. Angie bought some.
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gttexas: Waiting to enter the Minoan Palace of Knossos.
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gttexas: Our guide, Maria
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gttexas: Sign about the Palace of Knossos.
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gttexas: Our guide, Maria, shows a picture of what the palace is thought to have looked like back in its Bronze age heyday.
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gttexas: Part of the extensive excavations.
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gttexas: Palace of Knossos on Crete
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gttexas: Artwork in the Minoan Palace of Knossos in Crete.
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gttexas: Part of the excavated West magazines
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gttexas: Artwork depicting games with the bulls in Minoan times
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gttexas: The entry to the "Throne Room"
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gttexas: The stone throne inside the throne room. It supposedly is the oldest in Europe.
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gttexas: Sign describing the Throne room.
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gttexas: Sign explaining the East Wing, "Grand Staircase"
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gttexas: The grand Staircase
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gttexas: The grand Staircase
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gttexas: Sign about "South Entrance, Corridor with the Prince of Lilies Fresco
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gttexas: The "Prince of Lilies" fresco
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gttexas: Sign explaining the North Entrance North Pillar Hall
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gttexas: The North Pillar Hall
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gttexas: The Bull Fresco. North Entrance, North Pillar Wall
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gttexas: "What it may have looked like". Maria shows an artist's concept of what the original North pillar wall may have looked like.
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gttexas: Angie at the North Entrance of the palace of Knossos in Crete.
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gttexas: Another view of the Bull fresco.
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gttexas: The Royal Road - Original main entrance to the palace.
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gttexas: Fire Evacuation Plan which gives a good overview of the Palace grounds
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gttexas: Entering The restaurant where we are going to eat.
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gttexas: Angie meets up with my old "New Best Friend".
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gttexas: Inside the restaurant where we ate in Crete. It was a very good meal!