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