Wednesday we went to the island of Delos. To get there you have to go to the port city of Mykonos on a bus and then purchase tickets to the ferry which takes about a half hour to get to Delos. Once you are on the island you pay another 5 euro to enter the island. Then you can wander wherever you like until 3 when the last ferry off the island leaves. They check bags for relics on the way out.
On the North Side of the island there is a little town with many walls and buildings still standing. This is called the theatre district because it is close to the theatre. Cleopatra's house is also in this area as well as several well preserved homes with large mosaics.
The famous Delos Lions.
One of the lesser preserved large homes. Each one was built around an inner courtyard that usually had a large mosaic in the middle or some sort of water feature.
The theatre. Do you see the tiny people on the upper left of this picture? They are standing on the top row of the seating. This is the picture I want to show to my actors from now on. Project to those tiny people!
It was a wonderful and HOT day and we returned to Mykonos exhausted. Followed this adventure with some dinner and wine and then took our sunburned selves to bed after watching some Greek Idol. It is just as terrible as it's American counterpart but with a much smaller talent pool to draw from.
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