Sirens Resort Corinth

... wiped them out, famine, or disease. Some of the only writing about them exist in Homer’s tales.

Being in a place like Mycenae is what I think of when I think of 'Greece’ in my head. It’s so ancient yet preserved well enough to be able to walk through it and imagine what it must have been like thousands of years ago. I like to let my imagination run wild when I’m in places like this. I like to think of the path I’m walking on ...

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 ...

... had needed to go to the city center (which we didn't), we got off the bus too soon at an accidental random stop anyways that left us in a fairly empty run down part of town. Now all we could do is wander around until we found the bus station, and after asking some firemen and shop owners with broken English, we found a little bus station. We took a local bus to the big canal in Corinth. It's a huge canal built in the late 1800s that connects the ...

... Italian to him, and he spoke in sort of Spanish to her, with English intermixed on all sides and then some hilarious miming when we all got confused (stop now and try to explain lobster using only hand gestures and a few words. No, not a crab. Yeah, like a crab. Only red. Really big! Big claws, very expensive! YES! LOBSTELLO!) so we went around the ruins with him. He was a 23 year old journalist, traveling alone because he had a month off. His English wasn't bad, but he's far braver ...

... Makedonia and I can really compare with the kind of climate Alexander grew up with and therefore was used to. Incidentally, for all you Chaironeia fans, there is a new museum being built next to the lion which looks quite close to opening. Presumably it will display artifacts that date to this battle, and others as well; being a strategically-important location, Chaironeia was the scene of several battles over history. The whole area is ...

... comprehend. Soon after this calm interlude, our day became really interesting. We took the road from Thebes to Elefsina, which turns out to be the main route for trucks, buses and not a few cars. Worse, the road itself is narrow in most sections and consists of steep uphills and downhills and much twisting and turning through the mountains southwest of Athens. We had the hard luck of finding ourselves trapped behind a bus that was behind a truck with a pup that was behind he slowest ...

... though Alexander is only one of two hypothesized identifications of one of them) which I got photos of. There's one of Demosthenes, the Athenian orator whose opinion of Philip led to the expression "philippic" which means, approximately, "a rant in which you totally trash someone to the extent that he'd sue you if they'd had lawyers then instead of armies." (Actually the Athenians did have lawyers, in effect; they invented lawyers, which, if ...

... the boys hostel. they were in a much better location, just infront of the acropoli, and they had a roof top bar. The boys had a drink, and then we got to play Uno. very happy about this indeed! A couple of the girls from our grouped scored an apartment, so they treated us to some lovely greek takeaway and we got to stay there for a little while where more the group joined us. It was a good way to say goodbye! The End ...

... were already out of pizza. The available food didn't look too good so we walked over to the corporate sponsor for some McFood. The info sent before the games said that there would be ample veggie food but that was not the case. Even the McD's wasn't serving anything for me - no fish filet and the salads had chicken on them. So I had French fries for lunch. Oh well. After 'lunch', we continued walking around the Olympic complex and did a bit of souvenir shopping. I bought a t ...