Some holiday snaps from Crete

[Lewis - A2A]

hi guys,

a couple of snaps from the hol's, Crete is a great place, the Greek people there are very freindly and helped us have a great holiday. Not very child friendly though with there not being much for kids to do but i would recommend to anyone to go there for a great and relaxing holiday

proof i drank beer,


i even found a nice hookah bar so i was finally able to try strawberry,


mmmm nice warm blue sea with nice little fishes in it


View of resort of Stalias


And Cave man in his natural enviroment


all in all a great time was had,

[Point-man]

Boy the water there sure looks good! Unlike the water down in Galveston that's for sure... hehe Great pics.

[Snuffy]

Hookah bar ?? Yeah right ... looks like a sevre case of redeye to me. Not Strawberry.

Good shots Lewis.

[Lewis - A2A]

hehe snuffy

pointman yes the water there was great a very nice blue and great for snorkling

[clowns789]

Looks like a heckuva lotta fun... better than Galveston as Pointman mentioned. There's less seaweed at least.

[JJB17463rdBombGroup]

I agree the Greeks are friendly people.It does look like a very fun vacation spot Lewis.

I myself had an interesting conversation with a Greek individual.
It was a message board about the 2004 Greek Olympics (back in 2004).
I mentioned how my father piloted a bombing mission in 1944 South of Athens.I couldn't believe it the Greek guy told me that it was a Luftwaffe airbase South of Kalamakion and that he was there.I mean THERE in 1944 and witnessed the bombing of the airfield.And sure enough it was exactly like what was written in my fathers flight logs.It's that mission on Sept 15th,1944 that says Athens under the historical missions in WOP heavy bombers and jets.Wow what a very strange coincidence.
My dad was flying A.C.# 231836 Pig Chaser that day.In the last couple of days I recently found out about more names and numbers of the bombers that my father piloted(or copiloted) back in 1944.
Another wierd thing is I compared the 1944 bombing photo with a recent google earth photo.

Those are beautiful pictures.I might have to consider vacationing in Greece someday but first I want to go to Italy.

[Lewis - A2A]

ahh yes Italy, v nice as well and of course the original pizza's are the best

Did you know your fathers sqn? was it b24's?

reason i ask is i was reading bomber pilot on my hol's written by Audrey.

[JJB17463rdBombGroup]

Oh come on Lewis you are pulling my leg you know it's B-17's.
They were stationed at Celone airbase 6 miles north of the town of Foggia Italy.However my father had a friend who was a B-24 pilot.
Celone was first used by 223 squadron RAF from Oct 1943 to Mar 1944 after its capture from the Germans who used it as one of their JU-88 Airbases.
Anyway enjoy your vacation and try to find another Greek antikythera mechanism when you are there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism