Ancient Greece

Its been a couple of days since I last posted so here is a quick recap of the last couple of days.

First of all we slept in after skype-ing with our parents and julia until 2 in the morning. We had breakfast in bed again and then packed up our mountain of stuff before setting off up the road to Corinth. We visited the site of Ancient Corinth, taking many photos of the Temple of Apollo there. We also walked up to the site which they think is where the Roman governor sat in judgement of St Paul against Jewish accusations. It was the middle of the day in the sweltering heat (the worst time to do touristing in the ruins) so we didn't linger for too long in the actual site. We had lunch on a shaded terrace which overlooked the site which was just a magnificent experience.



We crossed the Isthmus into Greece proper and caught a glimpse of the Corinth Canal as we drove over it on the motorway. Once hitting Athens itself the traffic started getting a bit more madder (it was already a bit mad). The addition of heaps of scooters just makes it that more hectic. Watching greek traffic is quite entertaining in a frightening kind of way. At multiple times the slow traffic seemed to be in the middle lane with cars overtaking on both sides. Even saw a car overtaking by pulling out onto the shoulder at the edge of the road!

We are splashing out on our Athens trip and we are staying in a hotel the site right on the edge of the Plaka, just a couple of streets down from Syntagma square. This had been totally fantastic since we can just stroll out of the hotel and are right in the heart of the tourist district. This was totally awesome today, as once the heat of the day was burning us to a crisp we just went back to our room, turned the a/c on and had a wee nap.



Speaking of today we got up early and headed up to the Acropolis to see the Parthenon. We arrived about an hour after opening and there were already a couple of tour buses there. An hour later though and the whole of the Acropolis was completely packed with people and we were glad that we hadn't left it any later to come up. The Parthenon was huge and awesome but I really liked the Erechtheion.



After our midday interlude we checked out the Ancient Agora. The Areopagus is here, which is were Paul gave his eloquent speech to the Athenians. We took lots of photos of the Temple of Hephaistos since it is still mostly in one piece, with lots of columns and friezes.



Hope that everyone is enjoying our blog. I'll update the last post about Nafplion with some photos now :)