{"id":17357,"date":"2023-06-20T22:27:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=17357"},"modified":"2023-07-01T22:39:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T21:39:01","slug":"daily_3053_-_santorini_day_4_-_akrotiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/06\/20\/daily_3053_-_santorini_day_4_-_akrotiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3053 &#8211; Santorini, day 4 &#8211; Akrotiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A non-walking day today. Instead we visited the archaeological excavation\/museum at Akrotiri. Like the site at the top of the hill near Kamari, this town dates back to the Bronze age. It was destroyed by the volcanic eruption in 1600-something BC and the excavation has been in progress for some fifty-odd years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3053_Santorini_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe site was interesting to see, but I was disappointed to find out that absolutely everything they&#8217;ve found &#8211; tools, household objects, frescoes &#8211; has been carted off to museums in either Fira or all the way to Athens. Only the walls and stairs and streets themselves are left here, as well as a few token clay vases, and castings of bed frames, for some reason. (Wooden objects rotted over the centuries, and left behind hollow spaces in the volcanic ash, so when any hollows were found, the archaeologists made casts of them all.) They haven&#8217;t even put up replicas or projections or even posters with images.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3053_Santorini_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nOn the other hand, it was interesting to see archaeologists actually at work, with their brushes and sieves and wheelbarrows.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3053_Santorini_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nWe had lunch at the beach in Akrotiri, which was a much calmer experience than the crowds in Kamari. I wanted to try something local so I ordered red mullet. My plate did indeed contain a bunch of red fish. I was informed that even the fins were usually eaten and would taste like chips\/crisps, which indeed they did.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3053_Santorini_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3053_Santorini_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThen we looked at pretty black rocks on the beach, and threw some into the sea.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3053_Santorini_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A non-walking day today. Instead we visited the archaeological excavation\/museum at Akrotiri. Like the site at the top of the hill near Kamari, this town dates back to the Bronze age. It was destroyed by the volcanic eruption in 1600-something BC and the excavation has been in progress for some fifty-odd years. The site was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,775,745,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-eric","category-food_and_cooking","category-ingrid_johanna","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17361,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions\/17361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}