Barney (DDG 6) - Naval Cruise Book

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J I 'li nate l i 2 i 5 i 1 1 1 I l 1 S 5 i Liberty Ports Crete Crete, with a very forbidding coastline, is largely mountain- , M, Q ous and rocky, There are narrow, winding roads that traverse the if island, and there is scarcely enough room for one car, much less the large busses that use the roads. Apparently falth keells Cretan drivers on the roads, for there were Very few guard F3115 at the hairpin turns. 0' . The town at Soudha Bay was not large enough for an entlre liberty party, so liberty was divided into three sections each day. An inexpensive tour was offered to Heraklion, a town of 55,000 a few miles to the west. Heraklion is a port of call for many cruise Naples Had we been in the Med longer, Barneymen would have seen Na- ples more than twice. It is almost the homeport of ships of the East coast when they are part of the Sixth Fleet. Naples does not have the tourist attractions of Palma, but just outside of the city lie famous sights well worth seeing. The ruins of the city of Pompeii, destroyed in 79 A.D. by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, are only an hour away by traing and only a couple of hours by hydrofoil is the famous island of Capri. Just down the coast is the picturesque peninsula of Sorrento. The National Museum in Naples is among Europe's most signif- icant archaeological museumg and boasts a superb collection of stat- uary and other items from Pompeii and other areas. A short walking tour will leadone to extremes of the modern and the ancientg new buildings of glass and steel side by side with facades of centuries-old houses. There is the warmth and charm so t ' l y 108 of Southern Italy, but there are also lovely new shops, laden wit: the attract1ve wares of Europe at its most sophisticated affluence. say the least. ships in the Mediterranean, offering to the studentofoancient his- tory unequalled museum displays of Crete's fascinating past. However, our stop in Crete was largely upkeep rather than liberty, which was to come in Athens. Q f 1 ff 3 .f If f 1' . Athens Athens is a magnificent sight when viewed on the ap- roach f rom the Tyrrhenian Sea. The plains of Attica, with the Acropolis and the Parthe- non are most impressive. A large part of Athens iS very modern, with clean, wide,wel1-lighted streets. The older areas are like many of the other cities of Europe, with narrow, winding. streets and old buildings. There were several tour of Athens and environs available to the fleet, and many Barneymen took ad- Ventage of them. To see sights for the first time that one has heard about since grade school is exciting, to Pi1'aeUS, Athens' port has a fleet of yachts larger , and more handsome than any seen yet on this trip.