Our host/home owners of the Crete “trade a apad” , Patrick & Mania were just the most gracious & generous people possible. Mania is from Greece, exhusband was a diplomat posted in Iran & to the UN. Patrick is from Paris but now considers himself a Creatan. ( Gonna have to look up the etomology of “creatan” English coloquaile meaning {yes I need spell checker} ) cause the Creatian people I met were super nice. Anyway Patick’s interesting life of travel in Greece to North Africa, Ethiopia Mali, Bennin, becam his work. Buying exquisit ethinc art to furnish thier home and sell in his shop in Athens.
A few of Pics of his collections.
Above shots from the house uphill from Garnia, the small village 12 minutes west of Chania on Crete. ( spelling Greek names in english is “creative” which of course I like ) Chania sounds like ” Hhnaia” voiced by a local.
Above shots from Patrick’s shop in downtown old Athens.
Travis left from Crete back to Tel Aviv Thur. & a few days in Jordan before heading home Today, Monday. Patrick & I left Thur. night on the Ferry for Priaeus / Athens. A taxi to his house in Athens, also full of very cool art objects
Above shots from the shop, the web site is http://www.patrickfabre.com
Above shots from Mania & Patricks house in Athens. Mania is an architech and added many upgrades to this 3rd floor apt/house.
These last two shots of my “guest room” sort of loft space.
In my two days in Athens I walked with Patrick to his shop then on to, first day the Accropolis & Museum. Just a few shots from the multitude I took (killing the battery of phone) . Soo many sculptures, many now recovered from the British museum which had been chiseled off of the Accropolis & “stolen” by the British in the past.
Above nostly from the relief carvings (recovered from UK) on the “gable ends” of the Accropolis. These are at the new Museum of the Accropolis located just below, down hill from the temple of Athena (Accropolis)
Below are from the Museum of Archeology in Athens
The most interesting exhibit to me was not more sculpture but this (below) reserch on the shipwreck recovered astrological, navigation, first mechanical computer. An amazing multiy geared, super complext device still being studied, for it’s abilities to prdict atrological phenomena, to aid navigation. It’s incredible to what level Greek/ancient mederteranean cultures attained. In Art but also in Science.
OK pics of the “insturment exhibit” then I’ll post as this one is getting rather long
OK so that was a lot of text that you could probably google for a more readable explanation of the awsome BCE clockwork astrological insturment but I really liked it
fallowing is some awsome ceramics. Many are from grave/tomb burials, but I bet the wealthy had many bueatiful pots in the home for eery day use. Getting burried with a dead person just mskes it more likely to be preserved.
And lastly a serris from Santorini, which lucky for us (not for the residents) a massive volcanic eruption burried many household goods in volcanic ash, the Greek Vesuvius
OK I’m not actually caught up but maybe tomorrow, I’ve decided to just continue to camp here in Argos, 20 min drive to Nafplios, still several sights to see in the area and not moving hotels saves time+ this place has really good WiFi & I kind of like the smalltown feel here.
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