Remembrances in marble

After our market experience yesterday we fetched mom and walked to the ancient cemetery called Keramikos. The gravestones were relief sculptures of the deceased, in marble and painted. Beautiful examples of two sisters, a grandmother with a dead child, a soldier and his horse that died in battle, are still intact after 2500 yrs.

The museum also housed funerary urns and the most beautiful black and terra cotta ceramics and tiny little figurines that was placed in the graves of beloveds.

Everywhere you will find "selonsrose" (oleanders), olives, lemon, orange and naartjie trees; and pomegranates that line the streets. A fig tree and a vine will grow anywhere! even under ground in the metro stations or out of buildings next to lamp posts! The whole of Athens and the ancient site of the Agora is a food garden, and oh I forgot about the herbs! Camomile, lavender, rosemary and fennel are planted in the museum gardens and at bus stops!

Then we fetched our "Baggages" (as the Greeks call it) and schlepped up the steep hill towards the bus stop, ready for the next adventure! Off to the island of Skiathos!!!