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Started from Hotel Minos, Candia [Iráklion], and finished when just arrived back to Athens. Describing an expedition to Eastern Crete [with Hilda White, Vivien Whitfield and Margaret Rodger], giving his impressions of Crete, telling Herbert that he had had some success in the museum [in his work on Egyptian finds in Greece], that Duncan Mackenzie had just arrived in Crete and he hoped to leave on Wednesday as he needed to leave Athens for Macedonia [Greece, Chalkidiki] on 7 Mar. The letter includes a drawing of a map of John’s travels around Eastern Crete and a poem about being bitten by insects. During the expedition to Eastern Crete John, [Hilda White, Vivien Whitfield and Margaret Rodger] visited Chersonesos [Khersónisos], French excavations at Mallia, Neapolis [Neápolis], Kalo Chorio, Pachyammos [Pacheía Ámmos] (staying at the house of the late [Richard] Seager), Gournia [Gourniá], Hierapetra [Ierápetra], Vasiliki [Vasilikí], Sphaka, Sitia [Sitía], Palaikastro, Pseira and Mochlos islands, Psychro [Psychron] and Kasteli Pedhiadha [Kastelli Pediados]. John describes the hospitality shown to him by local patriarch in Sphaka, and by a German household in Psychro [Psychron]. John also mentions the roads were too bad to go to Phaestos [Faistós] and Hagia Triadha [Agía Triáda], that he had been to Tylissos [Tilíssos] but it was under snow, had seen [an excavation of] a palace at Nirou Chani, and wanted to return to Crete in spring. |
