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Our First Peloponnesian Destination
Nafplio (or Naplion, Nafplion, etc- it's spelled many different ways) is a cute town in the Peloponnese. It was the original capital of Greece, before it became Athens. It’s a port town on the water, with its top sights being the three fortresses within the Old Town area. For a former capital, it’s much smaller-feeling than you’d …
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999 steps or taxi?
Today the ship was anchored all day in Nauplion, a nice town in the Peloponnes. Instead of climbing the 999 steps up to the fortress, we decided to take a taxi up there. After all, we are on vacation. From the fortress you have a great view on the city and the port. We could even spot the Sea Cloud. The rest of the morning we spent walking along the ...
Napflion
We tried to stay as close to the sea shore as possible and again our navigator made a trick to us. The road got smaller and smaller when we drove over one mountain and if the navigator wouldn't have insisted that the road leads to the shore, we would have turned around and tried the other road. Well, sometimes it good to be lost (safely), since when we got over ...
999 giros de cuello y 999 escalones
... y, en efecto, verdad absoluta,son tantos y más.Nos tiemblan las piernas,muxo,no se sí es q no era lo suficientemente temprano...en fin...Vamos a ver la room.Bravo,una loca joven griega-italiana nos explica todo amablemente,asi q nosotras decidimos aprovecharnos de ella.Tenemos q llamar al youth hostel de Oía xa confirmar nuestra reserva,asi q le pedimos el favor.Recuperadas del esfuerzo meteoro,damos una vuelta x este animado ...
Arrival in Greece
... backdrop. It was a lovely country drive with unexpected surprises around each turn and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
After asking for further directions from a road construction worker when we reached a traffic circle without any mention of Nafplio on it, we finally reached our destination. Well, I still had about 3 more people to ask before we found the hotel deep in ancient Nafplio. As I kept driving and searching and asking, ...


