Trip day today!
We went to Thrapsano, visited Ross Daly, and Kazantzakis Museum, and the Boutaris winery.
In Thrapsano we got to see the traditional way to make pottery!
They turn the wheel with their foot instead of using the pedals like we have. It was amazing to watch him create beautiful piece after beautiful piece in front of us and watch as the clay molded so easily in his hands!
You can really see the foot wheel well in these two pics!
This guy showed us how to do it from start to finish......
The beginning....just a lump of clay
woah! i see something starting here....
how'd you do that??
hm....a vase?
How'd it get that big so easily?
getting fancy with the neck of the vase eh?
The beautiful end product!
....is it just me or does he seem pretty pleased with himself? :-)
After giving us a show he offered to let some of us try! of course I volunteered!!!
first time doing pottery!!!!!
it came out pretty decent actually! I will put up a picture of it when its dry....it's coming home with me!
Next we went to visit Ross Daly: the music legend!
He has a school where he teaches young artists who want to learn to play traditional greek/cretan instruments like the Lira.
He played a mini concert for us on his lawn. no big deal..... !!!!!
...he's a pretty cool dude!
Then we went to the Boutaris Winery.
we learned a lot about how white wine vs. red wine is made and got to see where its all stored
(ps. in case you didn't know red wine gets its color from the skins of the grape)
Kotsifali is the local cretan grape that is used in many of their wines!
Super cool picture of the cellar!
The cellar is supposed to be low light, cool, and not often entered in order to allow the wine to "sleep" as they say.
I went home with two bottles...one red and one sweet white. Delicious!
Today was jam-packed with really cool activities!
~ αγαπώ ~
We went to Thrapsano, visited Ross Daly, and Kazantzakis Museum, and the Boutaris winery.
In Thrapsano we got to see the traditional way to make pottery!
They turn the wheel with their foot instead of using the pedals like we have. It was amazing to watch him create beautiful piece after beautiful piece in front of us and watch as the clay molded so easily in his hands!
This guy showed us how to do it from start to finish......
The beautiful end product!
....is it just me or does he seem pretty pleased with himself? :-)
After giving us a show he offered to let some of us try! of course I volunteered!!!
first time doing pottery!!!!!
it came out pretty decent actually! I will put up a picture of it when its dry....it's coming home with me!
Next we went to visit Ross Daly: the music legend!
He has a school where he teaches young artists who want to learn to play traditional greek/cretan instruments like the Lira.
He played a mini concert for us on his lawn. no big deal..... !!!!!
...he's a pretty cool dude!
Then we went to the Boutaris Winery.
we learned a lot about how white wine vs. red wine is made and got to see where its all stored
(ps. in case you didn't know red wine gets its color from the skins of the grape)
Kotsifali is the local cretan grape that is used in many of their wines!
These are the tanks where the red and white wine are processed!
Super cool picture of the cellar!
The cellar is supposed to be low light, cool, and not often entered in order to allow the wine to "sleep" as they say.
I went home with two bottles...one red and one sweet white. Delicious!
Today was jam-packed with really cool activities!
~ αγαπώ ~
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