The day after our arrival, Nighean Bhan and I climbed to the top of the hill to see the fortress of Nafpaktos.
We started at the harbor - again, such clear water. And with inhabitants again!
And began working our way up the streets.
This is a sort of odd overlook view, but this is someone's garden below street level:
Looking across to the Peloponnese:
Another garden. This one had an artesian spring just running off into pool. It looked amazing:
Continuing to walk up:
Excavations at a ruined Turkish Bathhouse, a reminder of the ~ 350 years of Ottoman rule:
Still, a pretty amazing view:
My conclusion about Greece, as we work our way through your lovely photographs, is that it is a truly charming country. Almost makes me wish my traveling days weren't over.
ReplyDeleteLeigh, I certainly thought so. To be fair, seldom will a tour take you to "less great" areas. I will say we traveled to some areas less visited by tourists and even those were enchanting and lovely, which leads me to suspect much of Greece is that way.
DeleteI would certainly go back in a heartbeat, but perhaps go to different places. More of Peloponnese and some of the inland areas of Thessaly and Boeotia. Spend a day in Preveza. Part of the issue with a tour is that there is never really "enough" time to spend due to schedules.
Another thing I found attractive was that the towns were "whole" towns, not the facade or ruin of towns as we often see them in the US.
Nice set of photos TB, would be interesting to see the quarries all that stone came out of.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nylon12. My guess, from other places in Greece we went, is that those quarries were not too far from the town itself. Even the marble from the Parthenon was quarried within 20 miles of Athens.
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