Alkyon Resort Corinth

... Deep inside the citadel walls is an underground cistern. It is over 90 steps underground and completely pitch black. We made it about 25 steps down (with a small thumb beam that I carry around) before I got too scared and turned back. Andre kept going down a ways more with the light from his cell phone but eventually had to turn back because it just wasn’t enough light to see anything but the stairs directly beneath his feet. We spent a while just wandering ...

Hi everybody,

As you all know, we are back in the states! I haven't had time to finish writing the last three blog entries but I will as soon as I am able. I just wanted to let you guys know so you can check back over the next few days.

I hope everyone is excited to read about Athens because that was our last city and it was epic. Check back soon!

-Michelle

... other tourists testing it out too. The whole theater was just amazing. The reason it is so well-preserved is because it was forgotten about a long time ago and eventually was covered in dirt- due to the natural effects of being situated on a hillside. The dirt kept it preserved so when the theater was excavated only a couple steps had to be replaced in some of the high rows. Another cool thing was ...

When I make the list of the top ten days of my entire life so far, today is going to make the cut. Godiva and I had both tried to no avail to find a tour group that would be able to take us to Corinth so she could see the building of the Bema where the Apostle Paul was brought to trial as told in the New Testament. Finally we decided to hire a private taxi for the day through Famous George's taxis, the same company that helped twice with the ...

... slippery which was not. I mentioned the now glazed rocks of the acropolis, but this was worse. I think the heat completely baked them, because they were absolutely polished shiny and deadly. At one point we had to grab the handrail and heave ourselves nearly because our footing just was too precarious. Still, the view was absolutely fantastic and the citadel is so, so cool. It looks just like an ancient castle, but without the small town inside. It had walls, gates, and a temple to ...

... life. I was also pleased to see that, in one little crevice of the cave, someone had left wild grain and some flowers and ribbons, token offerings to the goddesses of the place. At 2:40pm we hurried back to the National Road and Karen sped down to the road to Nauplio. I made myself not look at the speedometer. Our progress was slowed a bit by some roadwork on the National Highway but it gave us time to observe evidence of last year's horrible forest fires ...

... away from Makedonian hegemony. Alexander, characteristically, was momentarily on their doorstep with an army to suggest they change their minds. After days of debate, the city voted to fight rather than surrender. To make a long story short, Alexander defeated them, but instead of letting them off with sanctions as Philip had done with Athens and Thebes both after Chaironeia, he had what was left of the men killed, the women and ...

... We continued up and at the top of the hill, I suddenly found myself just south of something I recognized! What luck! There to our left was the bronze statue of Epameinondas, a hero of fourth century BCE Thebes. And around the corner from him should be the little parking lot I remembered from my previous trip here. Somewhat reluctantly, Karen turned as I directed and, sure enough, there it was, just down the hill a bit from the statue. The attendant didn't speak any English but I ...

Today, we took a trip to the Corinth Canal and the Epidaurus.






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See, we managed to capture the canal with boat!









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... what I had already tried. Some of her ideas were actually things I had already thought of so '**** off lady'. But she was trying to help and didn't have to so I was nice. One suggestion she made was to look into flights from Brussels. Apparently, flights to/from A'dam are really expensive and Brussels (only 2 hours away) is a much cheaper alternative. This was it! I hit the www and found a flight from Brussels to Athens for under EUR 200 per person! Hallelujah! We were gonna go ...