 | Sounio, Greece |
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We set sail and after five or six hours wind up at Cape Sounion and the Temple of Poseidon to see the sunset. Unfortunately, we were a bit late in pushing off so we are quickly running out of sunlight as we anchor the boat. At this point, all ...
You don't realize how much you miss the birds until you hear them singing. The morning is crisp and the air smells fresh with pine and peppermint bushes. With the weather and all the trees, it's almost Oregon. Almost. We've driven south from Athens ...
Next the bus took us further south to the silver mine at Thorikos. The slaves of the Athenians dug approximately 21 billion dollars' worth of silver out of these mines, enough to pay for the fleet Athens used to defeat the Persians in the Persian War. ...
Sooner or later, you run out of words to express the astonishing beauty of Greece. I finally ran out today at Sounion. Our charter bus climbed and climbed to a high bluff on the southernmost tip of the Attic peninsula overlooking the sea. At the top was ...
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