As we trekked across open scrubland towards the hazy outline of a distant hill, I called out to my best friend Maisie.
‘Are you sure there’s an ancient palace around here?’
We were on holiday in Greece and had spotted the palace on a map. So we’d taken the local bus from Heraklion, which was quite different from the tour buses we had used on previous days. It was full of locals returning from the