GREEK TRIP

After staying a couple of days with Denis - Servas host in Athens - we took off on a whirlwind one week tour of Greece, planned by Fay and Academy Travel. Our car was a Citroen C3. Neat little unit. Trying to get out of the street where Academy Travel is I nudged a stationary motor scooter (well, there are far too many of them here anyway!)

Some of the highlights include:

• visiting the Meteora Monasteries out of Kalambaka. These are perched on top of TALL, TALL rocks which make them not very easy to reach, let alone attack. Look it up on the net (I haven't had time yet). When you looked over the edge it was just straight down! Driving in that area was similar as they were a bit short on guard rails at the side of the road. If there were any cars that went over the edge nobody would know! Frightening!
• getting lost driving through Lamia - took us 45 mins. Ugh!
• visiting Delphi ruins. I sang Waltzing Matilda on the theatre "stage" and was applauded by all 10 Japanese tourists present and Fay. I also had a run in the massive stadium... and was captured on digital camera.
• travelled 116 kph in a 50 kph zone and didn't get busted. Worst crime you can do is travel at 50 in a 50 zone!
• visited the ruins of Olympia where the modern Olympics begin each four years. They light the torch from there that then travels to the host country. The stadium there was about 300 metres in length (my estimate).
• visited a very well-preserved Apollo Temple in a TENT! I'm talking HUGE tent here! Would've liked the engineers to have seen that.
• spent 3 or 4 hours walking from main gate to the castle at the top at Mystras, just out of Sparta. Actually that was up and back. Barry Robbo would've declined the offer. Checked out palaces, churches, monastery and of course the castle on top. It was built about 1240 AD. There used to be a thriving place there.
• checked out the Epidavrus theatre, ruins and museum. I sang even better on this stage which has absolutely brilliant accoustics. Got a better reception there. Unfortunately I didn't actually draw 12,000 people which would've been a full house!
• paddled on Tola Beach... near Nafplion.

We get back to Athens and then train to the west coast (Tuesday 21 Nov) before boating up to some place near Florence. A few days there and then a few days in Rome and we fly to Beijing/Hong Kong.

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