day 10 and the strike continues

Heraklion is not the town i would like to be trapped in on this trip.  Chania would have been great.  Paros would not have been awful, Milos is a beautiful island.  Heraklion is not a horrible place, but without a car and left to walk around the old town, it's a maze of pedestrian streets filled with countless coffee shops, restaurants, souvenir shops, and a giant wall around the whole thing.  now this is not so much different than say Chania or Rethymnon, the difference being, Heraklion is fairly boring.  It's like being trapped in a tourist mall with very little character.  sure there are a few ancient reminders of the towns past, but everyone is moving moving moving, and the people do not slow down.  chania is slowed down tourist town, everyone relaxes and sits and contemplates life.  for all the wonders of Chania, Heraklion is void of most of them.  that and we already walked around the town yesterday and saw all the things we wanted to see.  bah.  so this morning we got up and went down to the dock and everything was shut up and there were no ferries today and we went back to the Marin and called Uli @Dolphin Hellas, and she got us a room in a different hotel, which did change things up a bit.  the Olive Green Hotel was a few blocks away, much more expensive, and the room looks like someone tried to cram as much luxury into a hotel room the size of normal small room.  the shower is in the corner of the bedroom area.  the toilet is next to that.  the sink is on the back wall.  everything is white like a hospital room.  bah.  so they had our room but couldn't get us in until after 2, so we decided to go for a walkabout on the far side of old town, down by the south end of the venetian wall that surrounds old town, and up to the grave site of Nikos Kazantzkis, the famous Cretan author who wrote Zorba the Greek and the Last Temptation of Christ.  the wind was really whipping it up as we followed the western wall down to the harbor and from there back to the center of town.  we were beat up by then, long walk, and went to the market area for lunch.  i started to feel light headed so we came back to get into our room and chill for the afternoon.  we are really enjoying our vacation, did you know?  well the strike ends tonight, apparently, and we will get on our boat for Paros tomorrow and then leave right away on Sunday for Sifnos.  I'm not sure if thats even enough time to go to Anti-Paros to see Despotiko or not, but I guess we'll find out.  I'm going to try to spend this time trying to upload pictures.  wish me luck.