Pitho Rooms Delphi

... we got there (nearly 3:00), the ladies who worked there were about ready to start kicking people out. They hustled us through the entire museum in less than ten minutes. It was just enough time for us to see everything but read nothing. The only thing we read was from our guidebook (which, luckily, writes about the most important and famous artifacts). In all honesty, I think this was the first time I didn’t even have a hint of boredom while in a museum. We were ...

... someone told us was Lamia. We were happy to finally get there, but still confused because the town name at the platform did not say Lamia. It said some long Greek word that didn’t even begin in an “L.” We then went inside the train station and asked the worker if we were in Lamia. She said, “No, Lamia” and pointed away from the train station. We were really confused at this point, after a local had just told us we were in Lamia ...

... societies whose appellations are made up of three Greek letters – Phi Beta Kappa, for example.

Lunch at the Amalia Hotel in the new village of Delphi was tasty,and another good opportunity to begin some new friendships. With the political parades in Athens there were difficulties in getting all the tour group back to their hotels and we found ourselves dropped off at Syntagma Square after a circuitous ride through the city to drop off others. We ...

... was a tourist site 2,500 years ago, when Greeks traveled here to have their fortunes told by the Oracle(s ...

... between the skiing season and the summer tourist season no one was there. It was a gorgeous warm day with a brilliant blue sky, and the Delphi Oracle was one of the most beautiful ruins we have seen yet. It reminded me a lot of Machu Picchu because it is the setting which makes the ruins so spectacular. The museum was excellent, and to see the ...

... reran their sprint. This time Red, who came in second last time, triumphed. Jane was philosophical about losing his chance to be the Panhellenic champion. Then we checked into the Hotel Acropoli, a darling little place with nice rooms. I opened the glass doors of my room to see a gigantic vista of green mountains, a cultivated valley, and a small town in the misty distance beside the water. Wow. I conducted both persuasion and rhetorical criticism classes in the breakfast ...

... lovely when I arrived--sunny and cool, unlike the sweltering un-airconditioned urban jungle I left in Paris. Unfortunately, the very next morning after arriving in Belgium, it turned into the cool, damp, soggy, misty, rainy Belgium that it is better known for. I woke up to a lovely breakfast in the hotel, then ran off to catch another breif train ride to Brugges--a city in northern Belgium with lots of lovely old brick buildings and the ...

... could change the span required to go from one side of the narrows to the other (the bridge is currently just under 2 miles in length). In any event we made it over in one piece so no harm was done.

Ancient Delphi is now one of my four or five favourite places on this earth. There is a magical sense to it that I attribute to its place in mythology - being the home of the Oracle of Delphi, to its location - perched high up the side of a ...

Today, we started our journey by joining a two day one night tour to Delphi and Meteora. This is the part which I like most, to actually have someone explain to us and drive us to the attractions. Ahh... time to relax and enjoy the journey.

We made a stop at the Delphi Musuem, aming them was this Sphinx ...

... Athenians during the Persian War. The oracle said they could survive behind a wooden wall; he took it as a wall of triremes (ships) which did save Athens. The story of Oedipus talks about the oracle at Delphi. His father received an oracle saying Oedipus would kill him and then marry his wife. A big event at Delphi is the Delphic Games which are held every four years. Winners here receive a laurel wreath (Olympics is the olive ...