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Sam Barris
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 Posted: Fri 20 Jan, 2006 11:27 am Post subject: Crete |
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It looks like my next set of orders are taking me to Crete. 
Does anyone know offhand the local laws regarding sword ownership? I was planning on breaking my four year sword fast in a serious way this Summer, and still am. Just wondering if I'll have to have them all shipped to my parents house.
Thanks.
Pax,
Sam Barris
"Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." —Thucydides
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Greyson Brown
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| Posted: Fri 20 Jan, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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Sam,
I haven't the foggiest about sword laws in Crete, but I share your frustration with the aptly named sword fast. For me, though, the poblem is less the host nation, and more the fact that I live in the barracks.
Best of luck to you!
-Grey
Edit: my laptop, which I am forced to use at the moment, is rather a pain. Please forgive the occasional dropped letter or missing capital.
"So long as I can keep the path of honor I am well content."
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
Last edited by Greyson Brown on Fri 20 Jan, 2006 6:09 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Helen Miller
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Steve Grisetti
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| Posted: Fri 20 Jan, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Crete |
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| Sam Barris wrote: | It looks like my next set of orders are taking me to Crete.
Does anyone know offhand the local laws regarding sword ownership? I was planning on breaking my four year sword fast in a serious way this Summer, and still am. Just wondering if I'll have to have them all shipped to my parents house.
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Sam, I am not sure about the laws, but there was some discussion about Albion having trouble importing swords into Greece in this thread, starting at the fourth post.
Enjoy Crete. I went there on vacation, many, many moons ago. Drove from Chania (will you be based there?) to Hora Sfakion to Rethymnon, to Phaistos, to Heraklion over the course of about a week. Tons of history. Got in some trouble sneaking into closed antiquities sites (their union was on strike), drank a lot of Ouzo, did some really stupid things (is there a correlation between the Ouzo and stupid things??). Had a fabulous time!
"...dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly."
- Sir Toby Belch
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Malcolm A
Location: Scotland, UK Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat 21 Jan, 2006 10:44 am Post subject: |
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Hope you enjoy your trip to Crete
It's a great island and the people are terrific.
Beware the ouzo unless you are sitting down and strapped into your chair!
On a more serious note, try to get to the main museum in Heraklion; it has a few swords and helmets that I think are worth seeing.
It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself
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