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Travel Blogs from Yialova
A detour to Sparta (Sparti)
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Mary never reads every word on every poster with lots of information but find some things interesting today. Troy takes his time, I go through museums quicker. As you may of guessed I am not a museum person but don’t mind some. A little history lesson with some interesting olive oil facts. It was applied on the skin before sex, athletes would apply it on their skin before competing to prevent them from the sun and good for the ...
Nafplio - A stunning town
... Greeks in Melbourne. Anyway we paid the bill with a tip and we returned to our flash room, big day exploring. Fun!
12 OCTOBER 2012 - We have breakfast in our flash hotel. All the usual breakfast selection of eggs, sausages, fruit, yoghurts, breads, cakes, juices, tea, coffee etc. After breakfast we went for a walk around town again just to take some last minute photos again. We returned to our hotel and checked out. Troy loved the lobby, ...
By bus to Tolo, the slow scenic route
... The bus stop for Naphlion is a short distance away from where I alighted after the journey and I had to ask directions. It is by the Capodistrian Barracks, so a chance to take a closer look at them.
From Argos we went on to Naphlion where I had to change bus again, and again I arrived at one bus station but then had to go to another place to catch the bus to Tolo. It was a ...
An evening in Tolo
I had often seen Tolo advertised, as a tourist destination and in real estate adverts. Curious to see somewhere different from my normal route, and wanting to visit Epidavros, this seemed a good occasion to satisfy my curiosity, especially as the hot June weather is conducive to tourism. Having booked my hotel on-line, without really considering how I was to get there, I had a somewhat lengthy series ...
Building in Vassara
... as if scattered with thousands of crystals. Looking back towards the mainland, the mountains rose from the little bay across the causeway and cast soft shadows across their rocky faces.
We climbed to the craggy plateau atop the rock, and past a little Byzantine church, before reaching the ruined fortress and Byzantine old village. Although the territory around it has changed hands many times over the 1500 year history of the village, it was notoriously difficult ...