Snow on the mountains

Dramatic views and a dusting of snow on the way back to Athens today - drove over 3.5 hrs nonstop. Steep and winding roads reminded me of TN. We took a boat to the island of Spetses on rough waters!

Hi from Spetses

Spetses is a small island about two hours drive south of Athens. Very cold, expecting snow in northern Greece in the next few days! Enjoying hot choc by the harbor. Cost: 3.50 Euros per cup! Below, Grayson pretends to fire his gun outside the Spetses Museum (with ovens in the background). Gabriel in a bakery, and with a 3-wheeled vehicle and moped.

Epidauros

This is the ancient theatre of Epidauros a center where people came for healing and once a large town. We stopped here on the way from Corinth to Spetses. The weather was wet and drizzly but the museum was excellent with lots of statues and lengthy inscriptions in beautifully carved letters describing the building exploits here and gifts that facilitated them.

Greek wedding

First Stop

The guest house that Janna found for us to stay for the first three nights is great. Very clean and modern with orange flokati rugs, just like in my music room at home. We are in a rural town west of Corinth. The population is 80% farmers. Every home has orange and lemon trees laden with fruit which is laying unwanted on the ground and squashed in the street. They are the best and juiciest oranges I have had. I guess the price dropped and nobody is buying them. It's also a vacation spot with a nice access to the ocean and beach homes owned by Athenians. The housekeeper Mina and her husband Peter and three boys have adopted us, letting us use the internet in their home, inviting us eat with them, showing Janna how to make spanikopita, and now that we are supposed to be moving on to an apartment in downtown Athens, inviting us to stay in their home (a number of people here don't think it's a good idea to stay in Athens). Peter is a farmer on the family farm, he grows olives for oil, apricots and grapes. Tonight he has an invitation to a wedding at the orthodox church, he said we could come with him. He said

Mina could look after the boys, I'm wondering if we should both go, or if Janna should stay.

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Madrid

Goodbye Nashville

Eric drops us off at the airport