Don't damage the ancient rocks!

Today has been a blissfully relaxing day. We've sleep in, had a late breakfast and stolled through Nafplion's beautiful streets (while Gem looks in the souvenir shops).



The ferry seats ended up not being as comfortable as we first thought (as the armrests didn't fold up and were pointy) and for some reason the ferry was really really vibraty. Gem managed to get some sleep by lying on the floor along with 20 or 30 other people cloggin up the corridors but I couldn't get comfortable to sleep much at all. The end result was that we were absolutely shattered, nevertheless we managed to drive through scary gGreek traffic to get to Nafplion. We rocked up to a pension and got a room with air conditioning. Yay for air conditioning, its awesome. Didn't really feel we needed it in Croatia but it is oh so good now.



We also went on an excursion to the ruins of Mycenae (Gem thinks my use of the word excursion makes us sound like 70 year olds on a tour bus or cruise ship). I was still a bit dopey from lack of sleep and there were lots of old rocks there (which would have been cooler if I was more awake).



Gem: Mycenae was pretty amazing, some of the 'old rocks' were built in the 13th century BC, thats a long time ago!!! Admittedly it was pretty hot and some of the ruins were hard to figure out. We have a really detailed guide book but it is a bit pompous so sometimes the info goes over our heads. The most famous bit of the site is the Lion Gate, which was pretty cool, and the Tholos tombs which are underground and shaped like behives inside.The Treasury of Atreus was the best of them as the roof is completly intact and its massive, the door lintel weighs about the same as 100 cars!!! what i think is crazy is that the tombs were coverred over and lost so that when the classical greeks were around they built a theatre on top of one of them cos they didnt know it was there.

Nafplion is a really pretty town. The guide book says its one of the prettiest in all of Greece. The old town has tons of really narrow little streets with pretty houses with shuttered windows and vines growing on them. And little restaurants everywhere with tables out on the streets. We walked out to the waterfront and looked across to the wee castle on the island. The water is once again really really clear and blue. Although later on we also watched the daily thunderstorm from the same waterfront. Massive forked lightnings and I caught part of one on camera.