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.
Ok so now that i am home and runing on my own computer again , you can get to see more stuff.
this sequence of photos took 10 minutes. over and done with by 5 30. and it was all dark by 6pm
What a wonderful day, th sun was shining the birds were singing , well not really but it was great. the ferry trip was great. and too many photos to show you all. i met some neat people from Invercargill ( NZ) hung out with then most of the way back.
this is the pink "Villa Agas" that i was stayng at for 15 euro a night a 10 minute walk from Thira.
this is my picture postcard , just walking along the road. all the buildings are white plaster. and mostly even clean I got to talk to one gent who was a builder , and building a house takes 3 months , ( island time here). yesterday when it was windy they got to go home early cant work in the wind. they do have problems with space small concrete mixers only , there is just no room.
