Stairway to... dinner

Better views of our way down to Dinner Sept 8th:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhkennerly/10926773576/

Back to Athens

An Elizabeth special: chocolate building materials

OMG! Doggles

What Athens might have once looked like

Bottom cnter, a terracotta drain pipe 1000s of years old: E is obsessed with them. A dig in central Athens

In the middle of the city, with a drain pipe of course

Top center left for the drain pipe

Athens central market Saturday afternoon: meat alley

Every meat you could imagine

Every spice you could imagine

Sausage alley

Fruit and veggie alley

Olives anyone?

Going nuts

Something fishy

Kea

From the back of the boat: anchored in Kea

Architectural details: stone sills

At the top of Kea

Typical road

Adapting to life on the side of a hill

15 minutes not feet to the archaic lion [archaios leon]

shrine

Downhill

From 600 BC

"Plato" is all I can read: the signature

Reminders of mortality in village life: this was the 3rd one hefted on a shoulder

Ancient terraces

Delos Mykonos

Leaving Santorini: the lines up the cliff are the road

Our vessel: Ealis

Observing ancient building techniques Delos

Detail of column

Lion gargoyle

Delos museum

Mosaic

Temple of the Syrians

Looking over the site

Lots of uphill

Greek goddess: Mykonos behind

New ideas for home!

1600s flour mill Mykonos

Mill gears

Unimaginable fury - Santorini

Unimaginable fury of a caldera explosion created this all...

Cookies?

Shrine and caldera wall looking to Fira

Cave in the black pumice

To Firostefani and Fira

Little churches everywhere: over Oia

Black red and grey pumices

Sunset over Oia

Highest point of Santorini: Prophet Elias Monastery

Look for the little dot on the ridge: E

Akrotiri archeological site

Akrotiri: Minoan ruins 5000 to 1700 BC