By Jeffrey Siger
A tender girl on vacation to Mykonos, the main recognized of Greece's Aegean Cycladic islands, easily disappears off the face of the earth. And nobody notices.
That is, until eventually a physique turns up on a pile of bones below the ground of a distant mountain church. Then the island's new police leader - the younger, politically improper, former Athens murder detective Andreas Kaldisastarts discovering our bodies, bones, and suspects nearly far and wide he looks.
Teamed with the canny, nearly-retired neighborhood murder leader, Andreas attempts to discover the killer sooner than the media can break the island's fabled attractiveness with a barrage of world-wide awareness on a secret that's haunted Mykonos undetected for decades.
Just while it sort of feels issues can't get any worse, one other younger lady disappears and political niceties now not subject. With the research now a rescue operation, Andreas reveals himself plunging into historic myths and forgotten island locations, racing opposed to a killer rationale on claiming a brand new sufferer who's herself made up our minds to outstep him.
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Head east on the National Road towards Ágios Nikólaos. Before the town, at the first set of traffic lights, turn left and follow the coast road for 10km to Eloúnda and Spinalónga. 70km. Crete & the Venetian Empire Crete became part of the Venetian Empire in 1204, when the 4th Crusade forgot its mission statement to free the Holy Land from Moslem domination and instead sacked Byzantine (Christian) Constantinople. Crete was separated from the Byzantine Empire and handed over to Venice. To the island’s new rulers, Crete was just another part of their mercantile empire, a source of food and raw materials, a staging post to provide safe harbours, and the means to repair and maintain their ships.
This is both good and bad news—modern archaeologists approve far more of Halbherr’s methodology, but for the non-specialist, Evans’s reconstructions and interpretations at Knossós stir the imagination far more effectively. However, some interesting artefacts were discovered at Festós—in particular, the exquisite and mysterious Phaistos Disc—between 3500 and 4000 years old, 15cm in diameter, made of fired clay, and with a spiral of hieroglyphic symbols on both sides that you feel should have been easy to interpret, yet never have been.
Agii Deka Ormos Mátala Ambelos Sideros Mesaras N. Psira Pompia DIKTI Harakas Skinias Sitía N. Gavdos Akr. Lithino Kalo Horio Mochlós KOFINAS 11 Kali Limenes E75 Pirgos Palekastro Ano Viannos Airport O R N O Piskokefalo Tripiti Kato Horio Anatoli Ferry Route THRIPTIS Zákros Lithines Ierapetra Ziros 0 20 mi Libyan Sea N. Kavalli N. Chrisí 0 20 km N. Koufonisi Platanos Kissamos Pondikonisi The Best Special-Interest Tours 52 Oddball Crete 53 ravelling around Crete researching this book, I came across interesting things or places that didn’t fit into any particular category.