Greece Adventures Day 5 (3/7/17): Castle, Cats & Coasts

Exploring the Kastro and having fun on the beach, welcome to Day 5!

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In the morning we visited the last site we had planned to visit, the Kastro. It's a fairly large area consisting of narrow roads which surround the castle itself. The castle isn't very big and exciting (there's actually just a museum inside now), but the surrounding grounds offer some lovely views in all directions, and the winding paths are so beautiful.

This is the Roman Catholic Cathedral which is tucked away inside the Kastro. It's a tiny building, but pretty nonetheless.

We decided to take it easy on our last full day in Greece, so we took the bus to a beach 20 minutes away from Naxos Town, Agia Anna beach. Compared to Agios Georgios, it's definitely busier as it is more popular, however, the water is deeper so there's more room for swimming (which is basically impossible to do at Agios Georgios), and the waves are slightly larger. Georgios is a nice quiet beach that is most suitable for families with small children, but we wanted something a bit more exciting, so to speak.

Some Ancient Greek literature - a classic...

For the entire three days that we had stayed in Naxos, we didn't actually go to the main town square until the night before the day we left. We had made friends with a jewellery-shop owner in Old Town,  and she recommended to us a restaurant that her brothers own.

And that reminds me - everyone in Greece is so gosh darn nice! The people are so unbelievably helpful and jolly, and there's always something 'on the house'. It was quite a change from English stiffness...

Anyway, I diverge. The restaurant is called Scirocco and is similar to the restaurant from the day before, Oasis, in that they're both very cosy, yet busy. We had to wait a bit for a table to become free, but it was worth it. The seafood pasta I had was perfect, not lacking in both quantity or quality of the 'seafood' aspect. It's definitely a place I can recommend to anyone!

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Saatchi Gallery and British Museum Exhibitions

Hiya!

I went to London yesterday, there are a few exhibitions going on which seemed interesting.

First was the Chanel Mademoiselle Prive exhibition in the Saatchi Gallery. It's about Gabrielle Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, and Haute Couture fashion, such as diamonds and the Chanel No5 perfume.

It was very interesting (very sparkly and 'fabricy'), and I got a free tote bag out of it :) The queue to go in, however, had me waiting for over an hour outside.

I then went to the British Museum, to check out two exhibitions - the first being 'Drawing in silver and gold'. It had drawings from artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and took you through the various styles of metalpoint drawings in different eras and countries.

I must say, though it sounds uninteresting, the drawings themselves had so much detail and attention put into them, it was hard not to be amazed by the fine lines and strokes, that apparently were hard to erase and so the artists had to have the whole thing planned out beforehand. So much effort!

The second exhibition was on the Celts, called 'Celts: art and identity'. It was alright, there was a lot of bronze and gold jewellery ('torcs' I learned, was the name they gave to bands around the neck) which was cool to look at.

However, at this point I think I'd had enough of exhibitions, so I quickly scanned the artefacts without reading about them in much detail. It was a massive exhibition anyway.

After I went to Chinatown for dinner and had the biggest dessert ever which I came to regret. It was a spontaneous decision; I had no idea what was in the dessert and no idea how big it would be. It tasted good at first, but I think the mixture of not knowing what I was eating and being too stuffed from the main put me off it quite quickly.

Ah well, photos will be up soon, once I get them onto my computer :)

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P.S. Guess what? I just realised it's been exactly a year since my last post about the Chinese Ming Dynasty exhibition in the British Museum! What a coincidence, the exact date...I guess these exhibitions all occur at the same time each year...

Wow my writing style has changed...(!)

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