Saturday. Packing is heavily underway now. After the past few days seeing the living room, bar, and the girls’ room getting lots of packing this morning saw the kitchen getting packed up and this afternoon attention turned to the girls’ classroom space which eventually turned into Paul’s office. This past week the Burger King in …
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TakeFlight Grand Tour 2 Ep 6: Crete, Greece – Beach Drinking, Cretan Folk Dancing, and a Green Huntsman Spider
Episode six of the footage that we shot while in Greece with Emily and Madeline Grice last summer is now up on YouTube. This is shot on June 22, 2019 on Kolatsos Beach at the ALmy Hotel, and then that night at the folk dancing demonstration at the Cretan Corner and then in our AirBnB …
TakeFlight Grand Tour 2 Ep 5: Crete, Greece – Knossos & Psychro Cave (Cave of Zeus)
In the fifth installment of TakeFlight’s Grand Tour of Europe 2, we go back to the Ruins of Knossos where Dominica, Liesl, Luciana, and I visited in 2016, to tour it again with Madeline and Emily. It was hot and busy so we did not stay too long. Since we had driven to the east …
TakeFlight Grand Tour 2 Ep 4: Crete, Greece – Ancient Aptera & Glyka Nera Beach
In our fourth episode we start off with Dominica, Emily, Madeline and I going to the nearby ruins of ancient Aptera to learn about the Minoan civilization that was there as well as later Greek and Roman and even Ottoman settlements. The girls discover their first amphitheater, as well. Then the next morning, Emily, Madeline …
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TakeFlight Grand Tour 2 Ep 3: Crete, Greece – Heraklion, Aptera, Chania & Palaiochora
After being in Athens and Santorini, we bring the girls to the island of Crete where Dominica and I (and Liesl and Luciana) lived in 2016 and loved so much. We arrive first in the capital of Heraklion and then travel to our rental home in Aptera and we visit the city of Chania (Xania) …