Before leaving the campsite at Gialova Pylou on Thursday 10th May Ann took a dip in the sea.
Close to the campsite was Mycenian Nestor's Palace. The Palace was destroyed by fire over 3000 years ago but this bathtub survived.
Close to the Palace was this Mycenian Tholos Tomb.
We continued south to the fishing village of Koroni where we spent the night parked by the harbour. This was the view from our van.
On Friday 11th May we left Koroni and travelled north up the coast to the city of Kalamata where we could again turn south and head for The Mani - the extreme south of the Greek mainland and notorious wild country where blood feuds have been carried on for centuries.
We stayed the night at Neo Itylo on the west coast of the Mani. We were parked on a minor road right by the sea and close to a nice restuarant where I had this very nice fish for my evening meal - Ann had a kebab which was not so nice.
On Saturday 12th May we drove anticlockwise aroung the southern Mani - south down the west coast and north up the east. We saw many of these traditional tower houses - build for short range gun battles between houses as part of the feuding culture of the Mani.
That night we left the Mani and travelled north to the Parnonas Mountains where we stayed on this pass at nearly 1200 metres.
On the morning of Sunday 13th May we descended form the Parnonas Mountains through an incedible limestone gorge where we saw this monastery perched on a huge mountain wall.
We stayed Sunday night at a Camperstop in Korinthos. The site had a path to what was described as Aphrodite's Waters which was a horrible muddy dripping cave inhabited by nasty looking fresh water crabs!
Before leaving Korinthos on Monday 14th May we visited the site of Ancient Korinthos - amazing - here is the Temple of Apollo. They even had the podium from which St Paul adressed the townsfolk in 52AD!
We then started serious travel north and found this quiet spot just north of the city of Lamia to spend last night. There was a tremendous electical storm during the night.
Today Tuesday 15th May we continued north and came upon this little orthodox church on a high mountain pass close to Mount Olimpos. Inside were many beautiful icons as below for example.
Tonight we are stopped at a motorway service area about 60 kilometres south os Thessaloniki. The wifi here doesn't seem to upload very well so not as many pictures as I would have liked in this post.
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