Visitors

During the excavations we received a lot of visitors, both local and foreign. Some have, in the mean time, become enthusiastic supporters of our project. Some of the local visitors have provided us with valuable information on the Bouffo in recent and less recent times.

: The Belgian Embassador to Athens and Mrs Pierre Vaesen

: 14th of July French participants

: A site director’s dream

: American School of Classical Studies Summer tour

: Angistri Restaurant bis

: Angistri Restaurant

: Blessed Kolatzo

: Caroline Heering and her mother

: Donald Haggis of Azoria

: Finding Atlantis with the National Geographic crew

: Gerald Cadogan Emilia Oddo

: Janna Venieri and Eleni Toubakari

: Jannis Papadatos

: Jerry Rutter

: Joe and Maria Shaw

: Markogiorgos with his sons

: Mia Hara Guests

: Minoan Ladies

: Pr et Mme Driessen, Mme Lambert, Spaak, M. Davignon

: Prof Hartmut and Gisela Matthäus (Erlangen University)

: Soon to be Prof and Mrs Knappett

: Students University Strasbourg

: INSTAPEC visit with Brogan, Papadatos etc.

: Cha & Jerry Rutter

: Christos Zouraris

: David Small

: Don Haggis

: Doniert Evely, Knossos Curator

: Flo & Jim Wright

: H.E. M. Van Den Reeck, Belgian Ambassador, M. Maebe, Belgian consul, Ann Peters

: Ilaria Caloi

: Ilaria Caloi & Luca Girella

: Ine Jacobs (KULeuven)

: John Bennet, Eleni Hatzaki and Knossians

: Kalimera Kriti guests

: Kleri Palyvou and Eva Tsakanika-Theochari

: Martin Schmidt

: Nikos, Roula of Epano Sissi

: Nikos Thannos

: Pietrovito Family

: Q, Ben Chan, Jim Wright

: Tim Cunningham

: Tod Whitelaw

: Vasso Zografaki, Vily Apostolakou

: Vily Apostolokou

: Spanish archaeologist Borga Herrera and Angus Smith, Brock College

: Ann and Chris De Hollander-Driessen

: Dr. Cecile Baeteman of the Belgian Royal Geological Institute

: Dr. Barry Molloy of the Irish Excavations at Prinitiatikos Pirgos and collaborator

: And the staff of the previous Beach Bar, who made our life more agreeable.

: Dr. Tom Brogan, director INSTAPEC, and collaborator

: Charlotte Langohr’s inlaws, Jean-Charles Drappier and Marie-Laure Van Hove, a Belgian archaeologist, and their kids.

: Christos Mameloukos…..Motorplan man and great help !

: Colin F. Macdonald, British School at Athens, Knossos and Palaikastro excavations, climbing up the Buffo

: Previous Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the UCL, Prof. Heinz Bouillon, getting explanation by Q.

: Prof. Diamanthis Panagiotopoulos (Heidelberg University)

: Prof. Roald Docter, member of BCARG and professor at Ghent, and his wife Liesbeth Vermassen

: The 2008 Dreros Team

: Our Ladies of the Labyrinth….Eleni and Anna

: Brigitta & Erik Hallager in discussion with Kristian Jacobson, a Dane living for more than 20 years in Vrachasi…..

: Eti Bonn-Müller, managing editor of Archaeology Magazine

: Alexandre Farnoux, Professor at the Sorbonne and, together with V. Zografaki, head of the Dreros project

: The Phtenakis Family

: Jean Germain, head of the Faculty of Arts Library at the UCL

: Dr. Christian Hübner working on the georadar survey

: Vera Klontza and members of the Priniatikos Pirgos team

: J.A. ‘Sandy’ MacGillivray, director Palaikastro excavations, and Robert Koehl, rhyton specialist !

: Marion and Philippe Lambert

: Ariane and Gildas Limozin and the two little Driessen

: Manolis, Head guard of the Malia Archaeological site

: Mr. G. Markakis (‘Markogiorgis’), previous mayor, and his son.

: Nikos Panagiotakis, head of the Pediada survey

: Dr. Krzystof Nowicki

: One of the local priests, Papamichali, blesses the site

: Sheffield United: Peter Tomkins and Peter Day

: Giorgios Metaxarakis and members of Jean-Claude Poursat’s family

: Michalis with his daughters, member of the Vrachasi council and owner of the Angistri restaurant.

: The Big Man….Rod Fitzsimons, architect of the Azoria excavations

: The Au Quotidien team of the RTBf Martine Ernst and Joel Renard – The 4 documentaries can be found elsewhere on their site

: Sabina Beckman, writer and archaeologist, who has been keeping an eye on the Buffo for years

: Sean Hemingway, Palaikastro Excavations and Metropolitan Museum New York

: M.P. Manolis Souladakis and his family

: Steven Soetens, director of the Belgian School at Athens

: Dr. Sylvie Müller (EFA-CNRS), head of the Malia Survey Team and some of her team members (including Dario Puglisi, 4th from left)

: Taxiarchos Orphanos, one of our local informants

: Three workers of one family: Manolis, Michalis and Dimitri Tzannakis

: Thomas Brissart and Didier Viviers, dean and professor at the ULB

: Manolis Souladakis aka ‘Voidas’ (+winter 2008) explaining to Lina, representative of the archaeological service, that he had cattle grazing on the Bouffos in recent years

: Alekos Nikakis, Vasso Zografaki and Lina Manousogianaki

: The Zouraris family and Vrachasi mayor Giorgios Sfirakis

We forgot to take pictures of Dr. Saro Wallace, T.F. Cunningham, Leonidas Klotzas, Hugh Sackett, Kostas Kuvernitakis, Michalis Mameloukos, the Digital Crete team of the IMS in Rethymnon, and others of whom we even forgot to note down the name … As well as an uninvited visitor, sent off to get dressed properly !