At Sea
Racing across the wide Ionian Sea, the MS Endeavour sliced through gentle, yet frothy white capped seas. Brilliant blue skies afforded the perfect opportunity for the sun worshippers to stake out their deck chairs, grab their dark glasses, sunscreen and books and settle in for the day. Rarely were the exercise machines empty (our chef du cuisine, Mats Loo, has obviously been a little too busy making us tempting treats) and there was a queue for the email computers and the chairs in the library!
A diverse range of talks were offered by our Expedition staff ranging from Classical Greek sanctuaries (in preparation for tomorrow’s visit to Olympia), the Columbian Exchange entailing the movement of plants between the Mediterranean and the New World, and how these have effected out diet and cuisine over the past 500 years. These were followed in the late afternoon with a slide-illustrated lecture on Mediterranean plate tectonics.
Lunch was served out on the pool deck for those wishing a slightly lighter fare and in the main dining room for those that wanted a wider range of scrumptious salads and hot entries. Back to the deck chairs, books, or a dip in the pool - before tea and more talks…. Can you think of a better way to recharge one’s batteries after hiking among the sun-baked ruins of Greek temples?
During recap Dennis Cornejo entertained us with his latest installment of the ‘Antics of the Mediterranean sea slug and other assorted fish tails’; David Barnes tackled the nationalist movements of Italy and Greece in the 19th and 20th centuries and Robyn Woodward finished off the evening with an overview of the state of European tourism 500 years ago.
The sun has set, dinner is being served and the moon-beams are lighting our way east - ever closer to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Racing across the wide Ionian Sea, the MS Endeavour sliced through gentle, yet frothy white capped seas. Brilliant blue skies afforded the perfect opportunity for the sun worshippers to stake out their deck chairs, grab their dark glasses, sunscreen and books and settle in for the day. Rarely were the exercise machines empty (our chef du cuisine, Mats Loo, has obviously been a little too busy making us tempting treats) and there was a queue for the email computers and the chairs in the library!
A diverse range of talks were offered by our Expedition staff ranging from Classical Greek sanctuaries (in preparation for tomorrow’s visit to Olympia), the Columbian Exchange entailing the movement of plants between the Mediterranean and the New World, and how these have effected out diet and cuisine over the past 500 years. These were followed in the late afternoon with a slide-illustrated lecture on Mediterranean plate tectonics.
Lunch was served out on the pool deck for those wishing a slightly lighter fare and in the main dining room for those that wanted a wider range of scrumptious salads and hot entries. Back to the deck chairs, books, or a dip in the pool - before tea and more talks…. Can you think of a better way to recharge one’s batteries after hiking among the sun-baked ruins of Greek temples?
During recap Dennis Cornejo entertained us with his latest installment of the ‘Antics of the Mediterranean sea slug and other assorted fish tails’; David Barnes tackled the nationalist movements of Italy and Greece in the 19th and 20th centuries and Robyn Woodward finished off the evening with an overview of the state of European tourism 500 years ago.
The sun has set, dinner is being served and the moon-beams are lighting our way east - ever closer to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
