We awoke to discover
that our room's little balcony had a wonderful view over the Saronic
Gulf. After a pretty basic hotel-provided breakfast downstairs we
drove back up and over the Corinth Canal and then over some hills and
into a much flatter, drier region – the cue for a quick School of
Mum and Dad geography lesson on rain shadows.
We eventually
reached the town of Delphi – right next door to the famous
archaeological site – and wandered around looking for somewhere to
have lunch. Unfortunately, the whole place appeared to be shut, so
after doing a near-complete circuit (and walking up and down an
awfully large number of stairs), we bought some basic provisions and
headed back to the site... where we discovered that you couldn't take
food in. So we sat outside and wolfed down some bread and olive
oil... only to discover that the site was going to close soon and we
didn't really have time to see it that afternoon. The museum,
however, was still open, so we had a look around that and then drove
down the road to the Temple of Athena, a smaller 'satellite' site
with a few standing columns and a lot of rubble that was free to
visit.
Back in town we
checked into our hotel, which had apparently had some sort of
water-related disaster on the top floor, putting the family room that
we had booked out of action. The owners were most apologetic, and
offered us two rooms that faced each other across a corridor, so the
girls got so sleep on their own for the night. Kate and my room had
an incredible, vertiginous view down to the Gulf of Corinth.
It was now dusk, so
we went out for a bit of a look around the town. We found a cute
little bar, run by a cute little Greek man and sat for a while on a
couch in the window drinking beer, eating crisps and watching the
Asian tourists go by. Then it was souvlaki for dinner again,
accompanied by a very dramatic Turkish soap opera playing on a tv in
the corner.
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