In search of sandy beaches, we head east of Hersonissos, and 10 km further on we turn into the streets of Malia where the maps show access to the sand sea beaches!
Malia is as commercialized as Hersonissos, and Greek Crete is hard to locate there, and not to be mistaken with other places in the world.
Apparently tourists like places where everything is "so familiar". And the business is spinning ...
We found sandy beaches in small coves, but they didn't encourage us to stay longer. The adjacent large sandy beaches are occupied by hotels and spas, and a set of sun loungers with an umbrella costs 10 euros / day. And there are thousands of those there! One next to the other. A chance to talk to strangers!
Passing through the parts of the city away from the main street, around the port, we can see the effects of the old crisis, because there are abandoned hotels and unfinished construction there.
No worries, tourists can choose from hundreds of elegant and probably expensive, modern places to spend their holidays, anyway.
Today the myths (for very adults) part two:
MINOS (son of Zeus)
Minos, the king and legislator of Crete, judge of the dead in Hades (after his own death).
He was considered to be the son of Zeus and of Europa and the husband of Pasifae. father of Ariadne, Androgeos, Glaucus, Deukalion, Phaedra, Akalle and Catreus.
Minos is associated with one of the most famous Greek myths - the labyrinth and the Minotaur. Minos competed for the throne with his brothers and sought divine intervention, praying to Poseidon to send him a sign - a wonderful white bull - that the throne was his. The bull appeared, Minos took the throne, but he did not keep the rest of the contract - he did not sacrifice the bull in honor of Poseidon. Poseidon was furious and came up with an ingenious and terrible punishment.
He charmed the wife of King Minos - Queen Pasifae who fell in love with the bull. And it was nor, by no means, pure love. This is where another famous mythological character - Daedalus - enters the story. Daedalus is a famous engineer, best known for the myth of Icarus and the wings that he glued with wax. Pasifa had him build a cow for her to crawl into, and thus deceive the magnificent white bull by tempting him to join her.
My comment:
Are we not living in a time of innocence? Does any of our contemporaries come up with such family and sexual figures?
Some ministers in the current government are sounding the alarm unnecessarily.
