May 15th 2011
We are now in Greece, we have been here for the past week and we have some pictures of Greece to share with you. We are pretty sure there will be many more pictures in the future so keep coming back to see, as we keep updating while we move along towards Turkey.
The pictures will be in geographical order as we move from west to east. Each picture will start with the name of the location followed by a colon (:) then a small description.
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| Entering the gulf of Korinth from the Gulf of Patras, this is Rio-Antirrio Bridge |
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| Passing under the Rio-Antirrio Bridge |
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| Navpaktos: View of the anchorage and the medieval harbour |
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| Navpaktos: The entrance to the small medieval harbour |
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| Navpaktos: Mario came inside the harbour with the dingy |
From the island of Trizonion we headed east to a very nice anchorage of Galaxidi from there we took a bus to visit Ancient Delphi the site where the Oracle and the Temple of Apollo was. The site is located on the north side of a deep gorge, the bottom of the gorge all the way from the sea inland for many mile are thousands of olive trees.
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| Galaxidi as seen from the boat |
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| Delphi: The treasury of the Athenians |
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| Delphi: the west stadium with seating on one side. |
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| Delphi: overlooking the gorge and the archeological site |
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| Delphi: The Sphinx one of the many gifts brought over to Apollo |
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| Antikiron: The mole and lighthouse |
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| Germeno: Relax time at the beach |
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| Germeno: Fort of Aegosthena as seen from the boat |
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| Loutraki: This is the first sunset from any of the anchorages we have been at. |
Once through the Korinth Canal we are in the Gulf of Saronica, we headed straight to the Zea Marina in Piraeus, €39/day for our boat, which is very reasonable, great place to provision and the marina stuff is first class. Piraeus is the harbour city of Athens. Athens is a most fascinating city, mostly built on unexcavated ancient ruins. Everywhere you walk you come across archeological sites to numerous to mention, but from the few pictures you can see it is just amazing. The most prominent are the Parthenon, The Ancient Agora; Herod’s Odeon and the Roman Agora.
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| Athens: Acropolis in the background |
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| Athens: Herod Atticus Odeon |
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| Athens: The Roman Agora |
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| Pireaus: The Maritime museum |
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| Pireaus: The market near the commercial harbour |
