Today we drove into Pylos and out the other side to the fortress, now also the home of the archaeological museum. The 6€ entrance fee includes the archaeological museum, a small museum and exhibition devoted to underwater archaeology, a church and the fortress itself. At the ticket office, just inside the fort's main gate, the official suggested that it might be best not to visit the archaeological museum first as there was a school party in there and it would be very noisy. We headed to the church, which had been converted from a mosque and some arab features were still visible in the internal decoration. We then moved on to the underwater archaeology museum before returning to the archaeology museum that was now child-free, in fact is was people-free - we had it to ourselves. It is not a large museum but there are some excellent atefacts and it is all very well displaid and explained in English and Greek. We then climbed up towards the fort's inner gate before noticing the underwater archaeology exhibition in the curtain wall. It was very small but interesting and we spent slightly longer in there than intended as it had started to rain. We weren't expecting that but it didn't rain hard for very long and we risked a quick look around the inner part of the fort including a walk around the walls where there would have been lovely views if it hadn't been raining.
We walked down into the town and found a small taverna for lunch, pigging out on giro pitta, our first on this visit to Greece and much anticipated. Two extra large giros (this was our main meal) and a shared large bottle of Mythos beer came to 12€ - a real bargain.
We spent some time wandering around the streets of Pylos and down to the harbour before climbing up through gardens to the wall of the fort and our motorhome.
Photos: A few canonballs and grenades from the fort; A beautiful glass bowl found in a burial - 3rd - 1st century BC; A baby's feeding bottle - 2,900 - 2,200 BC; The aqueduct that supplied the fort.
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