Wednesday, May 02, 2007
April ’07 – Greece, Athens
Sunday 1st April
Being a sufficiently long time since we braved a museum we thought we would try again with the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Jon’s luck is a valuable commodity as admission is free due to it being the first Sunday of the month! We had already planned our strategy in basically letting the children decide what we looked at and where we went and this worked great. The boys behaved really well and wanted to know lots of information about things, well swords, daggers and spears mainly oh and the two skeletons were equally satisfying!
The boys behaved really well but unfortunately, as is common in these places, the staff were over zealous in their protection of the glass surrounding the displays. Being children when they pointed to something they touched the glass but only with one finger and they definitely did not bang and we had numerous people coming up to tell us not to touch the glass, bearing in mind that after two minutes the boys had forgotten that they weren’t supposed to be touching it! This spoiled it for the boys as they were fascinated with many things but we had to keep telling them not to touch the glass that they lost enthusiasm.
Sunday 1st April
Being a sufficiently long time since we braved a museum we thought we would try again with the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Jon’s luck is a valuable commodity as admission is free due to it being the first Sunday of the month! We had already planned our strategy in basically letting the children decide what we looked at and where we went and this worked great. The boys behaved really well and wanted to know lots of information about things, well swords, daggers and spears mainly oh and the two skeletons were equally satisfying!
The boys behaved really well but unfortunately, as is common in these places, the staff were over zealous in their protection of the glass surrounding the displays. Being children when they pointed to something they touched the glass but only with one finger and they definitely did not bang and we had numerous people coming up to tell us not to touch the glass, bearing in mind that after two minutes the boys had forgotten that they weren’t supposed to be touching it! This spoiled it for the boys as they were fascinated with many things but we had to keep telling them not to touch the glass that they lost enthusiasm.
