Very cold and windy across the plateau and even more UP before suddenly DOWN the Imbros gorge. Half way is a small hut with rifles left behind by Allied troops. Emerged and made short walk to Chora Sfakion.
Waited for rain to stop, then began the trek UP. A welcome cool breeze quickly turned into cold wind. Suddenly the traditional cloaks make sense. Reached the Askifou plateau, then straight to the museum.
Spent too long in the new museum, so cheated a bit and took the bus to Vryses. Thankful that the route goes around the White Mountains, not directly over them. Even still, Tomorrow is all up hill…
Took the overnight ferry from Athens to Souda Bay. Stopped in at Souda Bay War Cemetery. Beautifully maintained and tranquil. Then into Chania itself. Maritime Museum has video of veterans, including ANZACs who were left behind and taken in by Cretan families.
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. -Nikos Kazantakis, Zorba the Greek
In the 1st century AD, Roman soldiers of the 20th Legion “Valeria Victrix” set up a pottery works near to what is now the Welsh town of Holt. For the next two hundred years, potter-soldiers would produce bricks, tiles and domestic pottery from local clay, to be transported down the river Dee to their fortress at Deva Victrix (modern Chester). Now Wrexham museum tells thier story with thier new temporary exhibition “Hidden Holt: The Story of a Roman Site”
The first explorations and digs at the site took place in the 1900 and 1910s, uncovering a large scale pottery manufacuring centre, with numerous workshops, kills and a drying rooms, along with hundreds of artefacts, many of them produced at the site.
Funeral statue of a young man, his cloak wrapped tightly around him, with spaces in his eyes for inlays. 1st century BC, from Ierapetra & now displayed in Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.
The Camp Stool Fresco, standing & seated Minoans drinking from cups and bowls and “La Parisienne” a female figure that may be a priestess or goddess. 1400BC, Knossos, now displayed in Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.
