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In French
Lewis Carroll
Victorian era
More olive trees by the sea —
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One cannot speak about Crete without mentioning Raki, the local alcohol (not to be confused with Turkish Raki, which tastes like Ouzo). Here you can see a traditional Raki still, used for the double distillation of grape pomace. Though Raki is fairly popular in continental Greece, it is almost a religious institution here in Crete and no serious restaurant owner will let you be on your way without first having their Raki (on the house, more often than not) —
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Thanks to Crete’s dry and warm climate, all it takes to obtain excellent dried tomatoes is a net mounted on a frame and some salt —
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If you’re in Crete, you’re bound to see olive trees everywhere (with 150000 tons of olive oil produced in Crete on average per year, the sector comprises 57 percent of the total value of exports from the island). As tempting as it may be, do not eat olives straight from the tree, because you’ll be left with a very sour taste that can easily last for the entire day —
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Ágios Nikólaos as seen from up the cliff —
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The Venetian fortress of Heraklion —
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Fishnets in the old Venetian harbour of Heraklion. I love the texture of those things and I always want to feel them, but I don’t want the sailors to look at me weird. Otherwise I’d just roll in fishnets all day like a confused mackerel —
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Visiting ruins makes me super happy, apparently —
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Here’s the most fascinating artefact I have seen in a museum in a while (and god knows I am a museum rat): the Phaistos Disc.
Discovered in 1908 by Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, the disc has retained its mystery for over a century. Here are some super cool facts about the disc that trigger the imagination of the linguist in me:
* The disc features 241 tokens, comprising 45 distinct signs;
* The signs were apparently made by pressing hieroglyphic "seals" into a disc of soft clay;
* The signs follow a clockwise sequence spiraling toward the center of the disk;
* It was written in what Sir Arthur Evans identified as “Linear B,” a type of script descended from Linear A (or “Cretan hieroglyphics”), with which it shares a few symbols.
* It was made in the 2nd millennium BC.
One of the most enduring mysteries of both linguistics and archeology, the Phaistos Disc contains many symbols that refer to animals and plants, but it also shows human figures and faces (if you look closely, you can see a head with a mohawk on every row). The reason why it is so difficult to decipher is that there is very little context and even fewer similar examples of Linear B, but Welsh-born Greek linguist Gareth Owens has recently declared that he had translated 50% of the Phaistos Disc and that the text might be about the Minoan Pregnant Goddess.
Ain’t it cool? .
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