Further Incidents of Travel (Reflections)

 

Well, we've been back in Blighty long enough to recover from the lack of decent tea, beer and fry-ups, time for our reflections on the trip to Greece and to let you know our plans for the future. Pyramids? Were they proper pyramids? Well, no, not in terms of the purpose of the structures we are looking for. Real pyramids have a non-practical or spiritual feeling to them - blah blah blah
Technology The Greek mobile phone system defeated us although we didn't really need a wireless connection this time as there were plenty of cybercafes around. The old Macintosh laptops seem to be getting heavier and slower each outing but apart from a bit of Swiss Army Knife engineering on a power supply (nice) they did the trick. We took a new Kodak digital camera (DC290) with loads of features we didn't use but it did do a few time-lapse sequences and (just about) recorded a some sounds (yes a camcorder would seem to be next logical step!)
The Unexpected Probably the most important part of travelling and luckily we each found something surprising and unexpected.
JB: Spotting the unexplained geared device in the Athens Museum of Archeology was a great discovery for me. I have come across descriptions of this machine for many years in strange books about unexplained and to turn round, in a fairly dull museum gallery of bronze statues and weapons, and see it sitting there in an anonymous glass case was a very pleasant surprise. I suppose it is most likely that someone on a ship a few hundred years ago dropped it overboard and it could have settled down into the remains of a wreck from much earlier (80BC) but I prefer to believe that is really is an artifact from a lost civilisation from thousands of years ago. Hard to tell really but I would like to find out what the writing on it means!
DP: The Cycladian sculpture.
The Future Currently planning (or thinking about planning) for: Madagascar: Eclipse 2001 (no mids but hopefully a cloud free eclipse experience) Tenerife: Peru: