Hotel Possidonion Corinth

... first hand. <br><br>A couple was touring the grounds (there's a museum as well) and the lady, a trained opera singer, decided she wanted to sing. We all sat down (I made my way to the top to test the theory) and from the very first note to the last, I heard every one! The pictures will be able to show you just how large the outdoor theater is to give you a better idea. <br><br>Next Stop: Athens!

... Maybe 6 miles across I would say. I also went to the beach for a few hours and tried not to get burnt for the millionith time so I rented an umbrella for a decent price. I came back in the pm that was that. <br><br>All in all a pretty good day but I think I want to explore some more islands of Greece for a bit longer. Maybe next time....<br><br>And I really love that scooter!

... 11.50 Euros later we were in Nafplio.<br><br>We stayed at a small place called Dimitrios Bekas. It was a basic place for 15 Euros a night. It was clean, quiet and had a roof top terrace.<br><br>Nafplio is a town that looks like it was made for a movie, I felt like I was always on set ready to be filmed. The houses are adorably cute with small terraces and lots of potted plants, well maintained and colorful and the streets have posh ...

... we would go to breakfast at 7:45 and finish up seeing Athens so we could meet up with Johnny and Mrs. Brooks later. We thought we could just spend another day in the area and extend our stay at the hotel. However, when we went down to breakfast and told them we wanted to stay longer, they said they were full and we couldn't stay. This meant a change of plans cuz we would have to pack up our stuff, take it with us, and not have a place to go back ...

... museum employees. Some of the antiquities were apprehended in Piraeus, the port of Athens, and some of the antiquities were found by the FBI being sold at auction by the Swiss in the U.S. The pieces were returned to the museum, but they never caught the thieves. Outside the Corinth Museum, four of the students were sitting together, and we laughed because three out of the four of them have the same first name. So it was a convention.

... prudent; as well as more fun as less time should be spent swimming and more sailing. We had a whale of a time whizzing back and forth, naturally keeping a sharp lookout and making particularly sure to stay well clear of the beginners on their first afternoon out. And then the wind suddenly REALLY picked up while our spinnaker was up; satisfyingly while Lasers toppled like dominoes all around us we shot forward as if catapulted, proving even the solidly built 400 ...

I guess neither prose descriptions nor photos can ever really give you the feel of a piece of land. We didn't walk the land on which the battle of Chaironeia took place - trying to pack so much into this trip we are always short on time, so we cheated by driving it, as best we could. This meant going over a lot of bumpy dirt roads around the farmer's fields - which were probably there then, too - through which the battle was fought. With any ...

... situation. The good news is that no one would have observed our stupidity because they were all taking their afternoon siesta. The bad news is that there was no one to help, either. Frankly, we saw so few people in the area the whole afternoon that I think we could have walked of with the whole village of Chaironea and no one would have noticed for hours, thanks to sleeping away the heat. Anyway, we safely returned to the highway, once we finally got the rented Hyundai turned ...

... many plots belonging to prestigious families. The survivors would have grave stellae (standing stones) carved of the most beautiful and touching family scenes that I just couldn't stop taking photos of them -- the replicas in situ, the originals inside the Kerameikos museum, and more originals inside the National Museum of Architecture, which we visited in the afternoon. The deceased is generally depicted sitting down, and the whole carving ...

... even called a hotel for me thinking that if he spoke Greek, he might get a better response than I would (as a side-note, we got the same quote but it was very nice of him to offer). So now we knew we could fly for cheap and stay for cheap. It was now time to sort out the details and pull the trigger. The cheapest flight was going to get us to Athens in the late afternoon, go straight to the Olympic event, and then head back to the airport for a pre-dawn flight - I even thought ...