Traveling Home

Just sitting here at the airport in Athens waiting for my airplane. Here is a picture of me from my hotel room this morning. I will try to keep updates going as I travel along today.

Thira

We have made it to Thira. It is just beautiful here! Here is a picture from a deck of a restaurant.

Just updating

So we have been rather busy running around looking at different sites. This picture is a view from one of my favorite places we have stopped recently. It is the view from INSTAP Study Center for East Crete. All that basically means that it is the center on Crete were archeologist bring there site find to store, rebuild and study their findings. It is at this center prof. Mook brings all of her findings from her site Azoria. We got to tour the whole building. Prof. Mook's area of expertise is on pottery. So we got to see how they go about restoring ancient pottery. When we were there a team was sorting bones from a grave site. What I found to be the coolest part was getting to see the storage rooms of all of the finds. It is just self after self of ancient Greek materials! The best part is that the majority of the material that we got to see and touch has never been seen by anyone but the people who found it and restored it. We were not aloud to take pictures inside because of all the unpublished materials. Then tomorrow is another travel day! We are taking a boat to Thira. This is the island that I have been looking forward to the most! As always I will update as soon as I can! Taylor

Still alive

Hey, I haven't had access to the Internet for the last day or so but we moved to a new town on Crete and this hotel has free wifi! Just wanted to give a quick update. I will be sure to add more later!

Taylor Clemens
Iowa State University
Performing Arts

Travel day

So today is a travel day. We will be going to Crete! So not for sure what the Internet situation is going to be like but I will try to post as soon as possible.

Taylor Clemens
Iowa State University
Performing Arts

Wine

So part of the Greek culture is wine and since I have been here I have tried a glass of two. But I thought this wine store was pretty awesome! By the way this is just the upstairs.

The Cliffs of Insanity

So we changes up the schedule due to what the weather might do here tomorrow. Today we took a boat around Rhodes to go and see the site at Lindos. The site mostly consisted of medieval castle remains, which were pretty cool. But one of my favorite parts was what I like to refer to them as the cliffs of insanity (name that movie). In the top right corner you can see the edge of the site. It was a mighty climb to the top but don't worry I took the trail option instead of strait up the rock face option. That's all for now! Taylor