Museums

One of the things I learnt the other day is that some of the haze that they get here, is actually created by a wind from the south. ... South of here is Libera, and a really large desert with yellow sand. So when the wind blows all the sand dust comes along clogging the atmosphere and then it rains and the yellow sand is on the ground for you to sweep up- or not as you wish. there was lots of it in the square in Crete.
Yesterday I caught a couple of museums, the acient history of Santorini about the caldara and the eruption of 1700 BC. there was a fairly large town here before then which has been partly excavated. they haven't found the Cemetary yet. ( which is where most ofthe infomation comes from.) This town is reknown for its wall decorations that have been found and the pottery that people left. There was no jewelery found, it looks like the people had a chance to leave during /after this eruption. One of the more interesting things was, the weights that were found. the murchants used the metric system. They found 1 , 2 and 5 grammes as well a 1 , 5 and 15 kgs . And you thought the metric system was something new. Well blame the Greeks.
No photos, sorry some museums are fussy on that.

Then I wandered arround and a indulged in some more retail therapy.

This afternoon i catch the Ferry back to Athens. 8 hours i believe.