Today we have decided to go and see the mosaics. There really isn’t enough shade between the buildings but I think I find most of it. Melissa finds more holes to duck into this time wishing she had brought a torch. I think my dad really enjoys the walk around here, it’s a little breezy but there are no clouds. I take lots of photographs of the mosaics and try to imagine how they would have looked 2000 years ago, definitely not the drab colours we see now. I will see what GIMP (this reminds me that I tried to explain GNU to Melissa on the plane but she didn’t get the joke) can do with one of them. Melissa spends the rest of the afternoon in the pool with the rest of us taking turns with supervision.
I'm really enjoying these daily posts, Sean. As I've been to the same places in the past I can imagine the surroundings very easily. Each day I feel as if I've been drawn right back there. Where next? The mosque in the old Turkish quarter? The pillar where Paul was reputedly tied up and beaten?
ReplyDeleteI think the mosaics were in the Roman governer's palace near the seashore, Paul himself must have walked on some of them.