The Beach and The Museum

This one is a little boring... but at least I found out how to add pictures!
So on September 24 (a Sunday) we went down to the beach in Metaponto (southeast of my town about 30-45 minutes by car). On our way there we visited the ancient Greek temple at Metaponto.
(I had to link the picture there because this site won't let me put one on here at the moment) It was really cool to see. We also met this really nice couple that took the pictures for us. They had a puppy that they were training and it was super cute.

 After that we finished the drive down to the beach. We left the car and walked a few kilometers (which was not fun because I was wearing not so comfortable sandals) to this wildlife center. Last summer (I think, everything was in Italian) they did a program for the rehabilitation of sea turtles. It has 3D diagrams of what there body under their shell, directions on what to do if you find a sea turtle injured, and some smaller animals and sea shells. I believe it has more activities in the summer but it was in September so no one was there. It was very open and pretty much outside. We didn't have to pay to go in.

A mural on the boardwalk of the beach

Once we were finished at the wildlife center we left the building and went through a path to get to the beach. It was pretty cloudy so there were only a few people on the whole beach, and most of them were fishing. Near the water were a whole bunch of small pebbles and rocks stacked up near the shore so it was hard to walk over them. I had flip flops on but it was still pretty difficult. We took a walk down closer to the water to walk in the sand. When we came back to the beach towels, we ate focaccia. It's basically thick pizza with little to no sauce and only a little cheese sometimes, and it is not eaten hot. You can get lots of different toppings too. I think it was pretty good, but I didn't like the kind I had that day the best.
After, it started to get warmer so we just layed on our beach towels and chilled for a while. We didn't swim because it was just too cold for that. It wasn;t cold but it wasn't hot either. When we were finished we walked all the way back to the car and then drove to a museum not too far from there.
When we got to the museum, there was barely anyone there. They had a lot of maps of the archaeological sites that they found and as we went through it had more interesting things. They also had some descriptions in English which helped a lot. Since we were the only ones there at the moment, someone working at the museum (I'm 99% sure but he wasn't wearing a name tag of shirt so I still don't know) kind of started to tag along with us and explain everything to us. The labels they had on all the items were not very specific. Although he did not speak English, my host dad speaks enough English to explain the main points to me. I wrote down some things in English that the labels were talking about so that I could research them later. For example, the museum had a lot of ancient red pottery. In the time period that these were made, a lot of the art painted on them were Greek myths and such. So I wrote the myth summaries from the explanation labels to research later (still haven't gotten around to it yet). Towards the end they also had skeletons they found in the dig sights and I learned a lot about the burial process during these times. The museum had a lot of art work and ancient tapestry and even examples of typical dress based on what they found in burial sites. (I don't remember the time period and I forgot to take pictures of the dress but they wore iron belts and headdresses as accessories)
That weekend was a goof one for me. I really enjoyed it and I felt like I learned a lot.
Imogen Wyatt

A place near the first place I tried coffee here. 

Ancient clay pottery 

A tapestry that I really liked so much