Phrases from Brochures/Guides

You gonna have another go then Jim?

It isn't my turn Lydia

Oh, silly me! ducky got it, didn't he. I'm still recovering from mega workload - like emerging from the Underworld. Older and wiser - and totally knackered.

Another extract from the rough guide, maybe too easy?

"The modern quality of ------------(12 letters) is due largely to a disastrous fire......which levelled most of the old plaster houses along a labyrinth of Ottoman lanes, including the entire Jewish quarter..... rendering nearly half the population homeless."

Is it Thessaloniki?

It is indeed, well done Vicky. (I'll have to be much more obscure next time)

I've recently read a book about that area which is why I recognised it!

I'd better start looking at a travel guide. Does it have to be Greece?

well it would give us more chance....

O.K. Here's the next one.

Situated in a very fertile plain with vineyards and olive trees, it still keeps its ancient name, as officially it is called --------. However, it is mostly known as --------, due to the fortress constructed by the Venetians and still standing there.

Is this on the mainland Vicky?

No, it's an island

Is this Molyvos (otherwise known as Mythimna)?

No it's not Molyvos Lydia.

Frangokastello?

Not Frangokastello but you've got the right island Lydia.

Rethymno?

No...it's further west.

Kastelli Kissamou.

Yes! Over to you.

Originally a two storey building, ------'- ------ is the best preserved of all Mycenaean -------.

(Easy peasy!)

Knossos?

No, Lydia.

Mycenae

Wrong again, sorry!

Tiryns?