It is also the home of one of the largest ancient theaters. We tested out it's acoustics with singing and jokes. It was pretty amazing how far sound traveled with no help from technology.
We returned to Nafplio for a summer storm, and then for dinner. We got ouzo accompanied by tiny fried fish, along with olives, giant beans, grilled feta, sausage, tomato and cucumber salad, and more ouzo!
A perfect last night in Nafplio!
We went to the beach upon returning to Nafplio! The water was so refreshing, even if the waves were a little rough.
For dinner that night, we started with the most amazing olives, olive oil and toasted bread.
The infamous Greek Salad.
Jeana and I shared moussaka and some kind of pig skewer, and our waiter kept supplying our table with free red wine! Very tasty.
There were a lot of steps.
The views were amazing. The ocean was so blue and seemed to go on forever...
After that hike, we were all exhausted and rested for most of the day. I explored and discovered a beach! The Mediterranean is so nice...And for dinner we had the fish special:
yum!
After a long day of travel from Florence to Rome to Athens to Nafplion on the Peloponnese peninsula, I arrived just in time for dinner. We had dolmades--grape leaves stuffed with meat and rice, stuffed peppers...some wine of course...
My travel companions, the folklorists! Adam, Linda, Kristi, and Jeana
And my moussaka. Delicious!
We walked around Syntagma square afterward. Even in this tiny tiny town, everything was open very late, it was so beautiful...
The Exhibition Hall:
The Russian pavilion was pretty neat, with a room of black lit crowded frescoes and the theme of "victory over the future."
The International Exhibition hall was immense and maze-like. We got lost, but saw a lot of cool stuff
And we spent some time wandering the streets of Venice of course! Good ol' San Marco full of pigeons...
Adventures continued with catching 3 am trains to get back to Florence, huddling in the cold, and watching bum fights. But that's another story!
