Sunday, August 12, 2007

By bus to Nafplios

We caught the bus this morning to Nafplios, an easy trip of 2-1/2 hours into the Peloponnese (sp?)...exciting stuff. The town, which is beyond cute and, Leslie says, may out-cutify Taormina, sits below a castle perched on the edge of a mountain. We are told the town sits on the sea, too, but we have yet to find it. We plan to rent scooters tomorrow and do just that (while avoiding head injuries).

Tomorrow we catch the bus for a day trip to Mycenae and Agammenon's palace, or so they say.

Tonight we will probably do what we've been doing since arriving in Nafplios, sit in a cafe, sweat, and drink iced coffees and beer and wine and ogle the fabulous people (gotta say it's a pretty homely lot here now). Oh, and eat a big slab of Greek seafood. It is hotter here than anywhere we've been and until 5 minutes ago was windless. Now the winds are beginning to blow and my blouse is finally not sticking to my back. Onward.

1 comment:

Eric Lueders said...

Don't envy you a walk in the summer sun up to Agamemnon's place. As I recall there's a neat beehive tomb (granary?) closeby. They claim to have the tub in which Agamemnon was whacked, I went with a group of female co-workers and they were uniformly smitten with the groundskeepers. I'll admit they were the Greekiest looking guys we saw.

Keep up the good work.

PS: Am I correct in assuming Leslie is functionally illiterate? It would explain a lot.