Volos

October 03, 2021

Our wine pairing dinner (Indian food)

Tonight’s sunset

Are we alone on this ship?

David at sunset

We woke up in Volos port this morning. We traveled by bus to another archeological museum of grave stones and burial relics discovered here. The main artifacts are the painted marble headstones from the 1st century BC that are still holding their color. They used pigment from natural stone mixed with wax to paint and then they used heat to fuse the colors with the marble. So effective that the color has lasted forever. Also interesting was the fact that these people figured out how to make glass from sand and many glass bottles were found. Small glass ampules were used to capture tears shed at a funeral and those were buried with the deceased. Warriors would fight mostly nude and they used olive oil on their exposed skin, then rubbed on sand as a type of sunscreen. Curved blades were then used to scrape the sand and oil off at the end of the day. Warriors were buried with these curved blades so they had it in their next life.

We drove for about an hour on hairpin turns up to one of the 24 villages on Mount Pelion 🤢 called Makrinitsa. Beautiful views from there of Volos. We had a coffee overlooking the scenery.

Once back onboard, we had lunch and then David and I took the shuttle to Volos and walked along the waterfront marina. It’s Sunday so every shop is closed. So we headed back and found a chaise by the wintergarden pool with a retractable roof. There’s no worry about getting a chair.

Wintergarden pool onboard

The boardwalk In Volos

Sweet doggo in Makrinitsa

Typical slate roofs of this part of Greece

Platanos tree

Makrinitsa

View of Volos from Makrinitsa

Glass jars and tear ampules

Painted marble headstone

Grave with panels, the deceased in the fetal position and the things offered for their next life. A lid would be placed on top before dirt was put on top.