Day 7 - Parnassos

Mt. Parnassos is about 10-15 miles to the northeast of Delphi. I wanted a hike, and I got one.

Day 6 - Thebes

The areas around modern Thiva (Thebes) in central Greece (Boeotia): Aliartos and Lafktra. Sites of major battles between Sparta and Thebes in 395 and 371 B.C.


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Day 5 - The Ancient Athenian Cemetery

Okay, so here's the next installment.

The ancient Athenian cemetery: Keramikos. It was used for about 1500 years, from 12th century BC to the Roman period. One of my favorite statues of the trip is housed in the museum of Keramikos. It's a huge marble statue of a bull with huge bull balls. Ya gotta love the Greeks.


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There were two great things about the ancient cemetary: 1) no tourist herders. 2) Athenian tortoises. The tortoises owned the place. I stopped and watched a pair battle for about thirty minutes; tortoise fights tend to last a while. They consist of lots of snapping at each other's head and limbs and then trying to scoop the other under the breastplate in order to flip him on his back.

Yeah, yeah, it's been a while.

New friends, old friends, and family have been wondering if I'm ever going to finish this section on the Greece trip. In a word: "Yes." In more words: "In my own sweet time."