Not much free time now - so I'll just spit out what I can. We meet up with my wife's friend and we've been staying in her guest house for the past 5 days. The main house is 10,000 square feet - I'll post some pics later, and we're staying in our own 2 story guest house. We're nestled in the Ekali hills high above Athens - her friend's father is a famous Greek Architect. It's nice to be whined and dinned, but we wanted to stay out of their hair so we took a couple of day trips in our rental car.
The first was to an amazing town called Nafplio in the Peloponnese peninsula. A great old town with a few castles (including 1 built out in the middle of the harbor). The food here was even better than Athens, and far cheaper too.
Our second trip the next day was up to Marathon to see the ancient burial tomb. It was very difficult to find due to conflicting signs, but the locals helped us out. Then we cruised down the coast to the Temple of Poseidon at sunset - again with much difficulty as Greek highways can just breakup without warning or signage. You just sort of keep going then you find things by chance. A lot more happened of course - like out stop in the crazy kids indoor playground in a posh beach town at night, like everything in Europe it had a huge bar. Why doesn't stuff like this serve alcohol in the states?
Off to Paris very early tomorrow - more to come.
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Sam, Maybe you could open a bar/playground for Americans. Just a thought. Wow. I can't wait to see the picture. Really glad the family is getting to travel. All the best,
Kim
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