Sunday 21 December 2008

Knives

knife shop hania chania

Knives inscribed with a Cretan mantinada are a specialty in Crete.
As you can see, this is all that this shop sells.

8 comments:

  1. Knives are appealing objects even to pacifists, like military aircraft. aloha-

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  2. I'm sure the mantinadas are nice or fun, but somehow so many knives is scary to my eyes.
    Hope they go through the X ray machine at the airport OK for the tourists. ;)

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  3. Like gun shops, such a shop would not be allowed in the UK. I bought a pair of ordinary scissors in Copenhagen and wasn't allowed to bring them back aboard our cruise-ship!

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  4. A sharp post, this.

    Happy Solstice to you also.

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  5. It's a token of friendship as well...Or rather, trust.

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  6. exactly, knives in crete arent regarded as dangerous weapons, they are more of a necessity in agriculture (we are not as hi-tech as in some countries in this respect) rather than a token of warfare

    (i must show you all a gun shop...)

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  7. Do you believe that althought I have given many of them as a present I don't have one?

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  8. wow! something like the khukris of the nepalese!

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