Romvi Holiday Apartments Nauplion

... who walked there before me. It’s so hard to describe the emotional feeling you get when you get to physically be somewhere like this.

Seeing Mycenae was crucial to our time in Greece. It helped us better understand the things we’d been seeing in other places, up until that point. And as you will read in the Athens blog entry, it really let our minds and experiences come full circle with understanding ancient Greece and our world’s history.

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

... while we at the theater, there was an archaeological dig going on just a few feet away. I don’t know if they had found anything at that point in the dig but it looked like an area where they could have come across some interesting artifacts.

Epidavros is most famously known for its theater but there are also remains of an ancient healing sanctuary. All you see today is rubble all over ...

Cycled into the ancient theater of Epidavros - heralded to be the best preserved of the ancient world, and I believe it could be true.

Immense in size it can seat 14 000 people, and it’s still used today. Built into the surrounding hillside, it’s extremely stable and it shows. Barely any decay even though it was made in the 3rd century BC. Incredible to see how perfect the ...

... served as the first capital of modern Greece in the early 1800s.
Nafplion is a great town with a beautiful waterfront and lots of Venetian architecture (the Venetians ruled it for a long time). Dominating the town, are the high cliffs upon which are the remains of a very large Venetian Fortress that was built in the 1600s. There are sidewalk cafes everywhere and the buildings along the streets are draped in magnificent blooming Bougainvillea vines.
Our hotel in ...

... and wood starting device, called the hysplex, and when the official behind them pulls the ropes, the hysplex falls and the runners start. Originally, runners ran to a similar starting line at the other end of the stadion, but that has been lost. So today they run to a set of stakes about 200 meters away. As in ancient times, the winner of each heat gets a headband and a palm branch and, a modern touch, a group photo. And when they change back ...

... been treated with tremendous respect and kindness, both on and off the road. When riding, especially in the countryside away from tourists, about 50% of the motorists give us some form of their approval. Whether it is just a "toot, toot" of the horn, or a "toot, toot" and a wave, they find a way to show us that they do not see us as a nasty obstruction in the way of their vehicle. I can't think of a time that a ...

... br>Yep! This is where you should stand and speak so that everyone in the the theater will hear you talk!











This is an olive tree! I've always thought it would be much ...

... She sat and talked for some time about living in Greece. It was so nice. We have found that the people in the smaller towns of Greece are much warmer than those in Athens. I think that is probably true of most cities vs towns. Though I can't imagine the people of Turkey being any more gracious than they were in Istanbul. On our drive back we stopped by some ruins of Argos. I think that our group is almost ...

... We started by seeing the theater of Corinth, where not much remains and it smells like fish bait, but there is a stone with the name of Eurastus on it, who is very likely the same Eurastus that is mentioned in Romans. After this visit we walked to the Temple of Apollo where 7 columns remain standing. This is a unique temple because the columns are made of one single piece of stone rather than several individual pieces. We continued on through the Agora and then arrived at the ...