Yesterday was an early morning start to our busy/jam packed day excursion...of taking it all in!
First stop Corinth! Our professors have a friend who digs on the archaeology site and has married a Greek man and lived here for 25 years! She showed us around like she lives there and she does.
After we walked up the hill and around the corner for tea and cake at her lovely home in the village! Her three little Greek children were so adorable and they live in paradise.
Then on to Mycenae- may be on my list of favorites.
We are talking bronze age ruins of burial sites- grave circles A and B. This is all dated back to the 7th century! The massive stone blocked walls- they had to have had a pulley system, I'm convinced, or cycloptic men.
When you get to the top (which happens in most places around here) the scenery changes your mood to content and peaceful. I have seen a lot of sceneries lately and maybe they are allstarting to run together (never) but these mountainous countrysides have something about them. Not to mention there are fig trees everywhere but they are never ripe...
Then we ventured to Nafplion. A little beach town on the coast. After a long lunch and an even longer walk through the shops we were about ready to hit the road again.
One of our assignments is to pick a cafe and spend 30 minutes observing our surroundings of the Greek culture. My group picked a middle aged cafe where the more sophisticated but not old people hung out. It was interesting to sit back and really see what goes on in a different culture. While enjoying a frappe (of course) we noticed the Greeks' body language and how they spend their time socializing.
Tonight is Italy vs. Spain futbol.
Forza Italia!
First stop Corinth! Our professors have a friend who digs on the archaeology site and has married a Greek man and lived here for 25 years! She showed us around like she lives there and she does.
After we walked up the hill and around the corner for tea and cake at her lovely home in the village! Her three little Greek children were so adorable and they live in paradise.
Then on to Mycenae- may be on my list of favorites.
We are talking bronze age ruins of burial sites- grave circles A and B. This is all dated back to the 7th century! The massive stone blocked walls- they had to have had a pulley system, I'm convinced, or cycloptic men.
When you get to the top (which happens in most places around here) the scenery changes your mood to content and peaceful. I have seen a lot of sceneries lately and maybe they are all
Then we ventured to Nafplion. A little beach town on the coast. After a long lunch and an even longer walk through the shops we were about ready to hit the road again.
One of our assignments is to pick a cafe and spend 30 minutes observing our surroundings of the Greek culture. My group picked a middle aged cafe where the more sophisticated but not old people hung out. It was interesting to sit back and really see what goes on in a different culture. While enjoying a frappe (of course) we noticed the Greeks' body language and how they spend their time socializing.
Tonight is Italy vs. Spain futbol.
Forza Italia!
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