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Cath's Caves

From Standing Room Only 7 September 2014

Writer Cath Mayo is recently back from exploring sacred caves, a recently rediscovered 3,300-year-old city and other assorted treasures in Greece. She’s in Wellington this weekend to talk about her adventures at Victoria University's Athens to Aotearoa conference, which includes looking at Classical Greek influences in New Zealand from a writer's perspective.  

Arachova - view down valley to Delphi after a thunderstorm

At Delphi - the temple of Apollo

Cath Mayo and Elissavet Chatzicharalampous in the cave

Cath Mayo and Nikos Leloudas in the cave

Cath Mayo says hello to some stalagmites

Cave map

Cave skull

Caver Ioannis Leontaris kisses a dead goat

Kalamianos - 3,300-year-old stone house walls - the olive trees came later

Kalamianos goatherd

Kalamianos goats

Korfos fishing boat

Mykenai - Alan Mayo in the doorway of the treasury of Atreus Tholos tomb

Mykenai bronze age wheel rut worn into road culvert stone slab

Mykenai lion gate with Cath Mayo

Mykenai museum cat

Singer-songwriter Matt Nanai

The Odyssey - my copy of Barbara Leonie Picard's re-telling

Waiheke Island Sandy Bay pohutukawa tree

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