Cupbearers: project for Pam

In the summer of 1963 I had just finished my first year at university, studying Greek and Latin. If you were ‘reading Classics’ (the proper term then) there was no question what you did in your first long vacation. You went to Greece.
 
The three of us carried sleeping bags and slept on beaches and boat decks and the flat roofs of cheap hotels. We hitched lifts with strangers. It was a safer world then but, even so, our parents must have been terrified.
 
We were in love with all things Classical. None of us had been to Greece before and to see the Acropolis and all those famous sites for the first time – it was indescribable.
 
Here Gill and Pam are posing as extra cupbearers in front of the famous cupbearer fresco in the Palace of Knossos in Crete. The photo is an enlargement of one of the tiny black and white snaps I took (see extras).
 
Now as a Covid-19 project we have digitised the photos and I am sending them across the world to Pam. Fifty - seven years ago, little did we think…