Todays objective was to see the Temple of Poseidon, I guess as he's the God of the Sea we all felt the need to make this trip, although it did seem a little crazy to embark on another 4 hour round trip to see one more temple!
Anyway, up we got and trotted to the appropriate bus stop which was thankfully only 5 minutes away from the apartment, found the bus and settled down for the two hour journey. This time we enjoyed a lovely journey along the coast, and finally got our first view of the Temple.
Another 20 minutes and we were there! Esmé was feeling somewhat jaded by temples by now and really wanted to swim, however we had brought no swim stuff and the beach was a long way down hill and she didn't want to walk.. hey ho! AJ on the other hand loved the Temple, as did Patrick and I, however we were done in less than an hour, having time for a brief look round the gift shop before heading back to Athens.
To be honest nobody fancied moving once we were back at the flat so we had a chill out few hours enjoying real wifi before heading back to the first restaurant for dinner!
Tuesday
We decided to head out early and see the Archaeological Museum before heading for the bus back to Nidri. Our host had recommended it, saying it was much better than the Acropolis museum as it covered much more, including the Mycenaean's. We, however, found that although there was a greater variety of exhibits, it wasn't nearly as child friendly. Esmé really loves the children's guides and activities that some Museums provide and the lack of this at the Archaeological museum along with it being the end of a tiring few days meant that she lost interest quite quickly.
Before this happened though, both kids marvelled at the Mycenaean Gold. There was just so much of it and it led us to wonder if it was far less scarce in those days!
It was truly amazing to see artefacts that were 7000 years old! I was also really pleased to see that the kids were engaged by the Egyptian artefacts, remembering the Shabti dolls which were supposed to be servants for the afterlife, buried with Egyptian bodies.
We were somewhat perplexed though by the presence of a boomerang!
The kids spent a good hour or so looking at the exhibits before we finally got bored and headed back to the apartment to check out, but not before having a bit of fun with one of the sculptures!
We said our goodbyes to our host and then scrabbled around to find a taxi to the bus station which cost less than the local bus we had caught on the way!
Then the 5 hour trip back to Lefkas, where we found there was a 1 hour wait for the bus to Nydri, just time for me to pop into the supermarket opposite to get some groceries for the next few days!
The next morning was a flurry of activity, restarting boatschool, picking up washing from the laundry, getting a new gas bottle, doing some handwashing while we had access to fill our tanks with water, filling up with diesel and finally a quick swim at the hotel before leaving the pontoon just before the 2pm deadline. We then motored over to Meganisi and anchored in Port Atheni. It had been a long, hot day and the boat was in chaos with washing and shopping everywhere. We had a swim and took it relatively easy, waiting until it had cooled down a little to cook dinner and tidy up.
No comments:
Post a Comment