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The previous night, Dan and I had stayed up checking manuscript images and burning DVDs. By the time the sun was up, I was exhausted. Regardless, it was a great day for a road trip. I could sleep on the way, after all. There were three candidates for this road trip: hit a Greek island or two, travel the Peloponnese or go north for Meteora.
Snatching a little time on the intertubes from an unsecured linksys router while sitting at an ice cream store that has fantastic sweets. Over my left shoulder rises the cliffs of Meteora here in northern Greece. The bottoms are lit by lights below, though the heights are obscured in darkness. Beautiful site. Will blog about today's adventures when I get home tomorrow. Never know when I'll lose my connection here.
I was up all last night. I was either verifying manuscript images or burning dvd's of them. We got the work done. Yay! But I'm beat.
There. I said it. You now know where we've been photographing for the last three days. But I wasn't the first to spill the beans. We have been at the National Historical Museum. They were very gracious to us, bringing us drinks without our asking and doing whatever they could to make this thing go well.
I made it to the bookstore again today (the really cool one I mentioned yesterday) and got the bibliographic information for the book.
The day began earlier than the last several since we are on a schedule today. I woke at 7:00 and we left around 8:15 to head to the institution at which we will be photographing for the next three days. We got there without a hitch.
Monday is a holiday here in Greece, so everything in closed. Restaurants, grocery stores...whatever. Since we did not have anything planned for this day and could not get started on anything big on Tuesday (day 10) because of day 11's activities, both of these days became general work days. I continued work on the website while others did other sundry tasks.
Easter celebrations actually began on day 7 at 11:30 PM, but since that post was long enough and most of this was technically on day 8, I will just start it here.
Day 7 was indeed a day of epic proportions. It was our first day off, so the roomie (Garrett) and I jumped in our little car and went on a road trip to Cape Sounion, a place I have wanted to go ever since I saw Buist Fanning's pictures of it several years ago (thanks!).
Since Easter is coming up in a few days, we have been unable to get to various places and see various people on these days. Since that was the case we stayed around our temporary living quarters and did some work.
Thus begins the epic saga of the Greece trip, day 4, Wednesday Apr 15.
Today we headed out around 9:00 to Athens. We had a meeting at 10:30 (ish...anyway) with Agamemnon at the National Bank Cultural Foundation Center for History and Paleography...
Thankfully, day 2 began late, giving us plenty of rest after the first day of travel. Normally the day will begin around 8, but today began at 10, at least for me.
You are getting this on day 2...but I was tired and decided not to stay up and post this. But regardless, here is day 1!
My first Greek New Testament manuscript photography expedition begins tomorrow.
