NAVAL MUSEUM OF THERA Oia, 847 02 Santorini tel. (0286) 71156

 THIS NAVAL MUSEUM  IS SITUATED ON A VERY QUIET LANE IN OIA IN AN OLD CAPTAINS HOUSE

Where to start writing about a generation of people who i never knew, but for sure i know  some of their children or grandchildren and i have been given so many stories of how Santorini  life was like then .
Even this morning on my way into oia i had the chance to sit with a lovely lady who told me that in oia before telephones the way of communication as to when a ship or boat was due to arrive was so simple,what is now the local post office use to be the main warehouse for the merchant ship owners who would come  to sample the harvest from the land. If a farmer from perivolos  in OIA had some wheat to sell to naxos to make beer he would take it there and then it would have been transported down to the port of Amudie onto small boats to row out to the cargo ships.
 

To read their charts or diaries while sailing at sea is amazing full of local captains and sailors memories that have been displayed in a handwriting of what we now see as a form of art and history and few of us can now understand in our own languages or countries of the men who brought to all our shores a culture from far afield before airplanes etc.

    I put a bell up to remind us all that in all of the world the bell has been used as a signal in communication of announcing to the people of a celebration ,a birth,at school, a wedding, a death or a warning of danger .(But i have a chance to promote a magnificent museum steeped in greek history of the people and hope you can share this with your friends and families so the young don't lose out on what their great great grandfathers did for them )