The last day and the trip home

<TITLE> The last day and the trip home </TITLE>
<THEME> TravelGreece
<THEME> Work
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It was to be my last day at the site and I was on the early shift.  As planned, Dimitri Gondicas arrived and began checking his email
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before he posed with Andy Plaks
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and with Andy and his wife Livia when they arrived.
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This led to a picture of the Princetonians present -- Szymon, Benedict, me, Dimitri and Andy
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after which I took pictures of many numbered pieces of fresco
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before our meeting which ended with this picture of the 3 Greeks -- Dimitri, Andreas and Christo Doumas.
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We broke for a long lunch at the cave where we arrayed ourselves at the long table
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as the bread
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beans
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Greek salad
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and tsatsiki arrived
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so that my plate would look like this
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before I went on to my main course of stuffed tomato and pepper
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while the others had fish.
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I had a nice conversation with this (Princeton trained) Yale archaeologist who is doing work at Old Thira.
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After lunch, I saw this beautiful spice growing and smelled it
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and then decided to have a piece of baklava since it was my last day and I hadn't yet had any.
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After a break, Matt and Szymon gathered
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as Dimitri took a cell phone call
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and the whole group headed to the dock (where there are ferries to beaches of all colors) to begin our boat ride around the island.
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The boat ride around the island was quite impressive, we began at the red beach which we had visited earlier
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and then went by the first black beach we had visited
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with amazing views forward
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and then to the white beach where rock formations were very impressive
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and there were caves
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as we admired the beach
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and then to the next black beach
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with structures built into the caves
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and accumulation by layers that showed the history of the rocks (for more than a million years)
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as the light showed the gaps among the rock formations
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and we noticed rock formations that had grown together
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as we continued past the formations
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and the coastline
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and white formations
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until we came to the edge of this side of the island
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and saw the lighthouse in the distance
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as we rounded the corner
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and looked out at the islands
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before heading back past formations
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caves
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and rocks
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until we reached the beach
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and the ocher rocks
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and the formations
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as we watched a bird ready to take flight
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saw some more formations
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looked out at the crane over Akrotiri
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and ultimately left the boat after a wonderful ride.
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For dinner, we went to a real restaurant rather than a taverna and, it being my last night, I began with ouzo
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as Szymon had red wine
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and Matt had Coke
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as the bread arrived
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and Tim's ``I'm not asleep act'' 
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stopped working
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as the appetizers of saganacki (with Cypriot cheese)
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clams
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Greek salad
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Cypriot bread with Greek salad
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and fava beans
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and then gave way to our main courses with my farfalle with vegetables
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accompanied by the main courses of the others
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as Benedict threatened to fire mashed potatoes across the table
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fortunately not in sight of the waiter
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and when the complimentary wine came these experiments were done to identify caustics in the hope that they could be input to a graphics project.
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