Naxos 4 May Business and Archaeology

On our 'free' day I stayed in the room working on blogs while David chased up a policeman to sign a copy of his passport and got 2 more passport photos.  By midday we walked to the Post Office and waited and waited to post an express letter to Suzy so she could organize a replacement drivers' licence for David, essential if we hired a car in UK.
Our lunch was very enjoyable - we shared 2 appetisers, mushrooms in wine sauce and eggplant, tomato and cheese bake, washed down with beer (I'm quite a convert!).  The waiter was excellent and we were given a complimentary small dish of good lemon-flavoured yoghurt.
We then went to Naxos Archaeological Museum, housed in a 17th century building, high on the hill where a Venetian castle and Museum stand. There we met our first rude, graceless Greek, the woman manning the ticket desk.

 The museum was fascinating.  Quoting from a book about Naxos:  ...there was a fairly well-developed society on Naxos as early as the late 4th millenium BC, about the end of the Neolithic age. Naxos is large (45 villages), has plenty of water, fertile soil, abundant marble and emery and a central position in the Aegean.
Among the funeral gifts found in abundance are examples of marble figurines and pottery from the early Cycladic period, 3200-2000 BC.

Attic, 6th century BC 

Attic, 6th century BC

4th century mosaic