Sparta - Mystras Before we left town we drove down to the local beach - quite nice with small white pebbles, small new bathing stalls that you would store beach umbrella, some chairs and beach equipment. An interesting coast to swim, not a ripple on the water! Off to Sparta and after travelling for 15 minutes Di remembers passports!!!! They are in the safe at Nafplio - luckily she remembered as the next time we would need them is tonight and that is likely to b...

Sparta - Mystras Before we left Nafplio we drove down to the local beach - quite nice with small white pebbles, small new bathing stalls that you would store beach umbrella, some chairs and beach equipment. An interesting coast to swim, not a ripple on the water! Off to Sparta and after travelling for 15 minutes Di remembers passports!!!! They are in the safe at Nafplio - luckily she remembered as the next time we would need them is tonight and that is likely t...

Napoli Greece Friday morning we finished off our brief visit to the World Heritage site close to the hotel. The Ancient Agora is the site through which all visiting the Parthenon would have travelled. It was a large market area with some churches and many large stoas (two storey shopping areas with covered forecourts or wide colonnades and more shops above)The Stoa of Attalos had been restored in the 1950's with American money and would be quite appropriate for ...

Arrived in Athens nearly an hour early as Etihad Airways likes to leave early and go like the clappers! Although touted as "Airline of the Year", back in cattle class they are no better than Qantas and seem very disorganised. The temperature in Athens was so much better about 26 degrees and sunny. There were people on the streets interesting markets etc. We took the Metro from the airport quite good and only 40 minutes to Monastiraki the Station in the ...

Arrived in Athens nearly an hour early as Etihad Airways likes to leave early and go like the clappers! Although touted as "Airline of the Year", back in cattle class they are no better than Qantas and seem very disorganised. The temperature in Athens was so much better about 26 degrees and sunny. There were people on the streets interesting markets etc. We took the Metro from the airport quite good and only 40 minutes to Monastiraki the Station in the ...