Cornwallis, reporting in! I’m helping with the straw for the mud-brick! First level is done and marked with a Jackalope Butt-Print. Everyone is waiting with their mud-bricks to put the next layer on. AJ’s feet after manually mixing the mud-brick in the “traditional” way (Don’t let her mother see this!): The progress so far:
Cornwallis reporting in… With a terrible hangover I must report. It is our day off on Wednesday so Tuesday night turned a bit… Festive. Someone coined the term "Archaealcoholics" and they weren’t kidding. I don’t know what this was, but it was mean and green and I let AJ go to the Paphos Mosaics without…
Our dig team is divided in to 3 teams of 3 "students" each and each team is responsible for breakfast and lunch food set up, clear away and "household" cleaning twice a week with responsibility to cook dinner once a week. Our night was Sunday. An Arkansan, a Cypriot and a Manchesturian walk in to…
So I should give you some idea about the people I’m living with. I’m giving them code names to protect the not-so-innocent. Currently we have: Issac – dig director from Edinborough Adam – Greek dig director currently living in Glasgow Mary – university student from London attending Manchester University Jenn – university student from London…
When she said "digging in the dirt", she wasn’t kidding. She hasn’t taken me to the site at all yet so all I’ve done is sit around the girls room at the dig house. Not as entertaining as one might think – I must be more prudish than Wally because I find myself hiding in…
We are staying at a Cypriot primary school (elementary). There are 6 girls in a classroom, on mattresses on the tiled floor, with all the child-sized desks pushed against the walls. The boys are in the classroom next door. There’s an open courtyard and a covered walkway for our "al fresco" dining with a kitchen…
Everyone has been complaining about how hot it is, and I’ve passively agreed, but really, it’s not that bad (mid 90s with high humidity). Until you try to sleep in a mostly shuttered room that has been baking all day. Plus my internal clock is rather annoyed with me, because the environment says its 3am,…
Guess what’s close-walk distance from the school? And they were super nice and gave us cheese and a peach as well. Though now AJ sounds REALLY ridiculous because that was a ginormous beer – see the wee jackalope for scale.
After hauling 30lbs of gear 3km, AJ is settled in at the school. Here is home sweet home for the next 2 weeks (for the last week we will move to Lemba Archaeological Centre). AJ was the first one here so she claimed the least scary-looking mattress. We won’t be the only Americans! Though she’s…
After all the delays and security craziness, I’m finally here! I’m staying at the Agapinor Hotel before headibg to Kissonerga and while not the Ritz, its got a/c, showers and a bed. Which is what I desperately needed. And this lovely view from my balcony last night around 1am local time: