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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Day 6 Oldest Olive Tree on the Island and Azogires

Day 6 on the beautiful island of Crete started off with breakfast on the street of Paleochora and then getting in the car for another fun little adventure. Before our adventure kicked off, we made a couple stops along the way, first was at a cute old church and then we visited the oldest living olive tree on the island. Olive trees  cover a quarter of the land mass of the island. We were amazed to find out they still produce olive oil from this tree.



Then we were off to Azogires, a surprisingly quaint but jammed packed village full of sights to see and explore. However, before our adventure started, we decided to grab lunch at the local restaurant where Steve and I had Sofia's Famous Omelets. So delicious!! While we were eating, we were entertained by a little humor of one of its' locals who attempted to "rob" the Snickers Ice Cream truck. LOL It startled us at first because we didn't know what was going on and then we had a good laugh. Turns out, the "robber", is featured in a couple of children's books written about his adventures. We didn't realize this until Steve went to go pay the bill and heard the lady call "robber" by his name, "Lucky", and connected the name to the books. He confirmed this and signed the books we purchased for Tyler.
Then we were off to see the village sights, "The Cave of the 99 Holy Fathers" and the museum of the village including the old olive oil factory, school and monastery. We ended our day by going to another beach and Steve and Tyler skipped rocks into the water before we met our friends for dinner.





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