Saturday: Mykonos
Jun. 9th, 2007 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deirdreMykonos is an island that many people see a lot of charm in. I, however, tend to see it as an island without trees. Most of the charming windmills aren't working windmills, and thus are less charming than their working counterparts.
We docked, then took a tender out to Delos, one of the main sacred sites of ancient Greece. The seas were quite rough, which means a 40-minute boat ride on choppy seas. More than one person needed some motion sickness patches or pills, and a couple of people were a bit green.
Delos -- supposedly it was such a sacred site that no one could be buried there or die there or be born there. The real answer, however, is a bit more wily: Athens, which exerted a lot of political control over Delos, didn't want anyone to be a citizen of Delos, and these rules were one way of preventing that.
There were a number of temples on Delos, which was the birthplace of Apollo. Though I'd never heard of Greece as having a syncretic tradition, there are temples to Isis and Osiris on Delos.
I walked through half the site, but I was having a bad pain day, so I skipped the larger, flatter part. Rick took photos. After visiting Delos, we took the tender back to the Mykonos port, picked up some postcards, and had a great meal. I had some Mykonos sausage, complete with mystery red meat (probably lamb), and it was very tasty.
I got an extra acupuncture treatment today, and now I'm feeling a lot better.
We're still in port as I write this, and I'm all dressed up for dinner (for a change).
Tomorrow: Izmir.
We docked, then took a tender out to Delos, one of the main sacred sites of ancient Greece. The seas were quite rough, which means a 40-minute boat ride on choppy seas. More than one person needed some motion sickness patches or pills, and a couple of people were a bit green.
Delos -- supposedly it was such a sacred site that no one could be buried there or die there or be born there. The real answer, however, is a bit more wily: Athens, which exerted a lot of political control over Delos, didn't want anyone to be a citizen of Delos, and these rules were one way of preventing that.
There were a number of temples on Delos, which was the birthplace of Apollo. Though I'd never heard of Greece as having a syncretic tradition, there are temples to Isis and Osiris on Delos.
I walked through half the site, but I was having a bad pain day, so I skipped the larger, flatter part. Rick took photos. After visiting Delos, we took the tender back to the Mykonos port, picked up some postcards, and had a great meal. I had some Mykonos sausage, complete with mystery red meat (probably lamb), and it was very tasty.
I got an extra acupuncture treatment today, and now I'm feeling a lot better.
We're still in port as I write this, and I'm all dressed up for dinner (for a change).
Tomorrow: Izmir.