Today we completed our mission from yesterday to visit the Missolonghi Salt Museum. Yesterday we walked the 2.5 miles out to the Salt Museum only to discover that it was closed on Tuesdays. The day ended well as we found a comfortable ocean front bar and relaxed and chatted for hours. But as we were walking back we decided we would head out to the museum again today.
So at 10:30 we were heading out on the causeway thru the lagoons that make up the Missolonghi water front to the ocean front museum. When we did get to the museum we were not disappointed with our decision. Though small the museum is really well done. Great care has been taken in selecting the displays with a mixture of technical descriptions of the many salts in the world and the manufacturing process for salt, with more light displays showing all the products that contain salt and a collection of over 1500 salt shakers from around the world. There is a very touching video display highlighting three workers in the local salt mines describing their time working in the mines. These men were instrumental in the campaign to found the museum. At the end there was a note saying that none of them survived to see the opening of the museum. All four of us really enjoyed the museum, but what I think speaks to the quality of the museum, we each enjoyed a different display as our highlight from the visit. Though quite small this is one of the most memorable museums I have visited in a while. The museum was worth the 10 miles of walking it took to visit it.
After our long walk to the museum we decided we would return to our favorite bar in Missolonghi. We enjoyed the fried anchovies and french fries but reduced our beer consumption to one round. Finally after a couple of hours we headed back down the causeway to the marina to enjoy a couple of hours on board their boat chatting with Ovi and Cory.
