Postcards to my father

 
A chronological string of postcards that I sent back to the family home, mainly in 1988.

Covering all places visited and commentary.

Based mainly around Archaic Archaeological sites starting in the West of the country and ultimately ending up in Istanbul.

Existing in a page of it's own.

It started with a travel grant for Anne to study ancient Archaic Greek sites – this gave us the chance to have a reason to go visiting out of the way places. A reason to actually be on a lane in the middle of nowhere and also the need to communicate with (very) local people. A very good way of getting the feel of a different culture.

Apart from phoning as often as I could, I sent postcards home from every place we stayed. Which started to branch out more and more as we covered all the out of the way sites which had to be dealt with.

Unfortunately,

At the time, my father was dying of cancer.

 

 

These are two links to (very) associated sites;

 

http://whitemoustachestreet.blogspot.co.uk/

 

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/achilles-shield.html

 

with maybe more in the way of artwork in them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This was a chance to lay them out (as it were) chronologically with some of the observations printed out as were written on the back. Its taken nearly 30 years.