Crete Day 3

Okay, finished Latin, finishing up my posts before the long long days ahead of me in Corinth and Delphi.

Crete, Day 3, Sunday, April 18
Minoan Palace of Phaestos, Agia Triada and Matala

Giant groves of giant olive trees outside of Phaestos.  I've decided that wherever I live I want to have olive trees.  They are just so damn regal.

More storage jars at the Palace of Phaestos

Agia Triaga, used to be an agora, an outdoor public place with shops and such.  Those giant square stone-looking things used to be round wooden columns.

Okay, so this probably doesn't look terribly impressive, but this was the one of many underground plumbing systems used in the different palaces we visited.  There were actual streams of both fresh water being brought into the palaces and waste water being taken out of the palaces under the floors.  Controlled the flow with a series of levers and pulleys.  This one is pretty rudimentary, but just keep in mind this is over 2,000 years old, and it still works!  They also had actual terracotta pipes too.

View from lunch in Matala.  The little ants swimming down there are classmates, and I think Andrew too (one of the professors)