After breakfast we checked out of our hotel, loaded the bus, and traveled the short distance to the Delphi site. After visiting the museum yesterday we had at least a passing understanding of what we would be seeing, but it was Really Cool to walk the pathways of this “center of the world.” Leaving the […]
Today will be bracketed by sun photos. Here’s the sunrise over breakfast this morning: Shortly after this was taken we boarded the bus and left Olympia headed for Delphi. Along the way we crossed the bridge over the Corinth Bay. An engineering marvel the bridge is almost 2 miles long and is one of the
We photo’d the sunrise, finished breakfast and set out – on foot because Olympia is so small – to the original Olympic village. Michaela told us a bunch of stories today, some Greek myth and some Olympic history. She described this as the location for the original Olympics because of the Fertility of the valley,
Today was designated as a “road day.” That is, the major event for today was a transfer across the peninsula to the village of Olympia. This was scheduled to be a really short day so we started with a walking tour of the old town Nafplion. Tour complete we climbed aboard the bus for one
If you’ve read (and/or remember) the Iliad you recall that the people attacking Troy were “Greeks” from Mycenae. Today we visited their main city/fortress. We did other stuff too, but we’ll get to that later. After ooing and ahhing over the tomb we proceeded to the site’s museum. They’ve got a good collection of artifacts
We were up, breakfasted, packed and out of our room by 8:45 this morning. We loaded the bus and were on our way to the Peloponnese Peninsula. First Stop: Corinth. Actually the first stop was the Corinth Canal. Shortly after the canal we arrived at the site of ancient Corinth. We traipsed around the site
Up, breakfast, NOT on the bus. Rather we walked a few blocks up to the presidential residence to see the changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier. This being Sunday they are decked out in the distinctively Greek uniform. Next we boarded the bus for a driving tour of the city.
Up, breakfast, bus to the base of the Acropolis hill. The first stop was the Areopagus – the knoll where Greek men in the first century would gather to discuss philosophy and such. After a bit of scrambling about the rocks we hiked up to the Acropolis. After that tour we were sufficiently frozen so
Up (early), Suitcases down to the lobby by 6:30, quick breakfast, on the bus by 7:00, off to the airport. The flight to Athens was a short hop so by 9:30 we were back on a bus and headed to the National Archaeological Museum. The students had a “scavenger hunt” assignment which we were free
Up, breakfast, bus; this time for a trek across the island to the southern coast. Our adventures started in the town of Gortys. This sleepy little village was the capital of the Roman province back in the day, so there are important ruins to be tromped on. The first stop was a complex that included