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. Going to the islands held a risk, in that a problem getting back to the mainland might mean missing our flights early morning Tuesday. As for the other two, I had no strong feelings.
Apologies on being late in finishing up my trip reports. I know some of you have asked for them. Apparently, not sleeping during the night a couple nights (not continuous) before a 20-ish flight and layover sequence back to the states is a recipe for exhaustion. I've been able to make it to work for semi-normal work hours (used up all my vacation so I didn't have much of a choice), but other than that I've been absolutely exhausted. More tired than I've ever been before. So beat that I couldn't hardly think, read, write, watch TV...nothing. I am, however, coming out of it apparently, so I will be resuming my posts (likely) today, and will hopefully finish up the backlog of trip posts tomorrow.
I guess I'm getting old.
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.
Day 13: Finishing Manuscript Photography at the National Historical Museum
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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.
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I made it to the bookstore again today (the really cool one I mentioned yesterday) and got the bibliographic information for the book.
Day 12: Manuscript Photography Day 2 and the Awesome Bookstore
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Today began as day two of the manuscript shoot.
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Has anyone out there read T.H. White's The Once and Future King? It is one of the books I brought on the trip to read but I'm about 80 pages into it and I'm finding it pretty dull. Does it get better over time?
Day 11: Manuscript Photography Day 1
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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.