Parnassos Delphi Hotel

... erection of a monument which rewarded them with a prophecy which would in most cases have been favourable. Much like indulgences as Sue so cynically and astutely mentioned. Does commerce ever really change, or merely become more sophisticated in its practice?!

Being situated right on the precipitous mountainside meant that the site was subject to rock falls on a reasonably regular basis. There were parts of the site which were closed when we arrived for ...

... place must have made on people all those generations ago: it has a definite aura about it. You almost expect a faun or satyr to come strolling around one of the bushes at any moment!
Way up on the tops, the sky is turning blacker by the minute. I think I spy the top of a kind of brown rainbow-arc cresting the summit. Perhaps the gods really won't want me to proceed? Am a little spooked by this, I ...

... Ruins of Temple of Apollo even more striking. The natural landscape alone is breathtaking: 8,000 years of recorded history inflates the impression manyfold. The things they assembled here, with their technology & transportation, just beggar belief!
A glass of chilled retsina to watch the precious sun go down prompts reflection on the many centuries of human (and otherwordly) strife and struggle in this magical land. 
 Have really arrived, at last!

... are some hot springs as well.

In the area there are a couple of campsites, although I don’t know if campsites are so popular nowadays since hotels were not very expensive, at least this year!



GOOD NEWS!

The house is ok! My God…we are at ease now, but still worrying as to what we shall find on the way home.







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After four days of exploring Athens, I was curious as to how Greek life looked outside the country's huge capital city. To satisfy this curiosity, I planned a trip to sneak out of Athens for a visit to Delphi, where the site of the famous Oracle and Temple of Apollo were found.

I embarked early morning to the bus station from Sia’s flat via taxi, and from there caught a modern, full and air conditioned ...

... a semi passing the bus in front of us on the curve on narrow street. Most pedestrians were helping getting the semi move along making sure he didn't clip the balcony's beside him. Apparently a by-pass is being constructed. We arrived in Athens at rush hour and it was a slow journey to get off the highway. We arrived at the bus terminal and went out to catch a bus down to the street where the hotel is on. Found out you have to have a ticket ...

Animals were all over us at Delphi! First, Jane found a green-striped frog, and carried it around on his pocket before returning it back to the grass. Then, kitties started visiting us. Traveling Pants in particular was adopted by one tabby who loved her so much he started purring and ...

Hellllo! Sorry for the extreemely delayed updating folks, but my last few weeks have been very busy. I was trying to cram in all the things that I put off doing in Paris and get ready to leave France, go to Brussels, then to Athens, and eventually come home--yay! Right now I am coming to you live from the top of a glorious moutain range in Delphi, Greece--home of the famous ancient oracle and temple of the Greek sun god Apollo. Tomorrow I ...

... temple. That's why the mediating women were called the Pythia. To the ancient Greeks Delphi was the center of the world because supposedly Zeus released to eagles from the ends of the earth, and this is where they met. So Zeus dropped a big stone there, and -Voila! - the earth's belly-button came to be. Every four years in ancient Delphi, the Pythian Games were held for all of Greece. The remains of the stadium here are still in good ...