Went to Delos today...couldn't help but think....if only the English had paid attention...the entire black plague would have been avoided. The island is, according to legend, the birth place of Apollo (God of the light/sun) and his twin sister Artemis (Goddess of the hunt/moon). This 5kilometer by 1.5meter island sustained a population of 30,000+/- people. (there was even a hotel!) They had a filtering cistern system (made of limestone) that purified the rain water, and drainage that sent all the waste (human) out to sea...and this was 7 centuries before Christ was born...7 centuries...yet somehow the dark ages still came to be. Wow-and not in a good way. (yes English ancestors, this means you....) Lots of lizards live on the islands, and a few cats as well....there's actually cats all over Mykonos. They're all very sweet and seem well fed, but don't really appear to "belong" to anyone in particular.
I'm adding a link on info for Delos as frankly the island is so rich in history....I'm sure there are books on it (2,500 BC to 2011...to much for these fingers to type!) the museum on the island is definitely worth the time to look around. The mosaics are gorgeous. They were the floors of the homes/shops: pretty, easy to clean, and (depending on your wealth) could be created from scraps....the ancients had it all over us with our shag rugs...they super win here.
http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/greecedelos.htm (info on Delos)
Saw the Mykonos pelicans today! They're friggin HUGE, and apparently eat a lot of krill as they're also pink...seems to care less about people as I nearly touched one (it was sleeping, and I felt surprising a sleeping animal with a beak as big as my forearm was likely bad planning...) the islands are certainly warming up (yay!) and now that I've figured out the heat, and have a "curtain" to get some sleep...beach mission to be continued (and hopefully accomplished) tomorrow! Weird, I've been gone a week now...honestly doesn't seem that long. I'll take that as a great thing, and to mean this trip, is exactly where I need to be.
I was a bit trepidacious getting going, having no job, and just up and leaving for a few months...though exciting..also took a bit of planning, and a leap of faith that this world leads you just where you need to go.
Remember: smile because it happened...and sometimes, smile because it's over, in the end...everything does just that- ends.
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