Mpelleiko Tradional House Peloponnese

... would entail completely replacing the grip shifts on both handlebars. Instead, I just covered the break with duct tape hoping that it would hold together. It did, but only for so long. <br><br> After some finking, the deralier would still shift between 2nd and 3rd, and I was able to manage it without too much grinding. Of course, the first obstacle was a rather large hill. Without a low gear, I had to walk it ...

... this is supposed to be the off season! Fighting through the crowds of colour-coded name-tag wearing tourists rushing to follow their banner-carrying leader to get to the bus before it leaves. <br><br>But once we were inside the complex, the area was huge ! And all the tourists inside kept huddled closely to their leaders so as not to get lost. <br><br>This is an area of amazing beauty ...

... wet and cold and not having any fun. I can&#8217;t see the scenery I so want to, and we have no desire to go to any sights in the rain. What&#8217;s going on?<br><br>Upon reaching the campground I couldn&#8217;t take anymore. It had only been 2 hours cycling in the rain, but the rain wasn&#8217;t letting up. Here we were in Olympia and I couldn&#8217;t see it! I didn&#8217;t know what to do ...

The port we sailed into was at Katakolon, Greece. From there it was about 40 minutes by tour bus to Olympia and the site of the original olympics. Dean was much more interested in this site than I was. I would much prefer to browse shops and buy stuff. The stadium where the foot races were held has the original starting line. And tourists like to reinact a ...

... Our choices were (a) Dhimitsana - probably cheap, lots of rooms, lots of eateries, (b) Stemnitsa - picturesque, probably more expensive, but newer to us as we'd never stayed there, and (c) Karytaina - we knew it well and liked it, and it was likely to be cheaper. All three were potentially on our route, so we could check them out as we went...<br><br> Arriving at Dhimitsana we unexpectedly found ourselves in the biggest ...

... last forever any more. We are happy to be impermanent, with our fast-changing styles and planned obsolescence. Hardly anything is, to borrow the idiom, etched in stone any more; most of our information is no longer even recorded on any material medium, but takes the ultimately ephemeral form of a stream of electrons. We don't build out of megaliths any more because we don't really want to.

... be a peaceful and profound experience. We have just paid our admission fees when a phalanx of tour buses turns up behind us. A gigantic Royal Caribbean Cruise liner has tied up this morning at Patras and has disgorged its tourists on us, so our peaceful and profound experience will have to wait for the next site. It is not as easy to bypass them here as we did in Athens , but in the end we actually tag on to a ...

... of Zeus' wife, Hera that took place at another time. Olympic events included foot races, wrestling, discus, javelin, long jump, races with horses and chariots, and a type of boxing called pancratium. There were not only athletic events, but also writing, poetry, and history readings. Business transactions, deals, and treaties were made between leaders of city states as well, since warring during the month of the games, in honor of Zeus, was not ...

... of Poseidon _______________________________________ ____________________ 26 Oct, Wednesday Start point: Cape Matapan End point: Saxoneika Via: Vathia, Diros Cave Odom(Km): 70.99 Moving(hrs.mim): 5.39 Ave(Km/h): 12.5 Total Ascent(m): 1371 Max Altitude(m) 376 Max Speed(Km/h): 51.7 The southern tip of Greece is sparsely populated. Nowhere demonstrates this best than ...

... stuff. We saw helments, shields, and shin gaurds. All of it was from the time of hoplite warfare where they would hold their shields on their left side, covering half of their body and half of the body of the man next to them, and march in rank. Katorina said that most of the time, the army that broke rank first would lose. There was not a lot of killing in these wars, at least compared to more modern ones, because the first army that broke rank would usually scatter ...