Greece: Athens and the Peloponnese

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TRAVEL DIARY

? Thursday, 28.07.83
Departure from Milan at 6.30 am to Venice. In Trieste in Italy last refuel and then Yugoslav customs. Let us first stop in Ljubljana for a packed lunch. At 20:00 we are already in Belgrade but we do not find a free hotel for which we have to continue another 15 km, dinner at hotel.

? Friday, 29.07.83
We start at 7:30 from the outskirts of Belgrade, we Nis, Skopje and Gevgelija. Lunch, still in Yugoslavia, but with very good steaks in a restaurant with table cloths worn by now. Ripartimao motorway and take and a fine on the motorway for speeding of 30 thousand pounds.
Overcome the Greek customs, and we continue to Evzoni, then Thessaloniki, Katerini, Larissa, Volos and Lamia. Find hotels in Lamia. On the day we suffered a lot of heat.

? Saturday 30.07.83
Left Lamia we stop to visit Termopoli. In Athens we stopped by chance in front of Ava in the Plaka, we have 3 apartments with kitchen. In the afternoon we visit the magnificent Acropolis and take a sereata around the Plaka and dinner in a restaurant with traditional low tables in the street.

? Sunday 31.07.83
Athens. Visit the National Museum in the morning and go to Piraeus pomeriffio that, however, it disappoints a lot. We continue with the visit of Roman temples near the hotel. Evening in Plaka: done shopping, the prices are really low!

? Monday '01.08.83
Departure from Athens in the morning 8 am, we pass the Straits of Corinth. Visit Mycenae, the door of the lions and the tank .. Then Tripolis and Kalamata. In Agios Andreas, we expect friends to Terpsicore where we stop for a while 'living by the beach for a few days. The sea is crystal clear and the room, with balcony overlooking the sea, comfortable and pilita. The car we have left in the courtyard and the area used for the dinner will draw a beautiful pine forest that reaches the sea. With friends we visit the local caves Dirou at Aeropolis and Gythion
Spend an afternoon in the bay west of Koroni dining restaurant at the beach and in the evening we visit the Castle of Koroni and dinner in port.
One morning we visit Kalamata and advantage to book the ship for the return to Italy.

? Sunday 07.08.83
Starting from Agios Andreas visit Kalamata Kiparissi. In Olympia, where the corals are dear friends, visit the museum and the ruins of the stadium. Pyrgos Patras, Rion, Antirrion ferry, Missolonghi, Agrinion, Arta. Bello il from Arta to Joannina between gorges and forests of trees centuries and streams. Metsovon: here we have found hotels open and we were housed in local house, the evening was very cold.

? Monday, 08.08.83
Leaving from Metsovon to 7.30. Pass leading to the valley of the Meteors in a beautiful open space we had breakfast with the coffee table and cooker picnic. Here grazing horses with foals. We are down to Kalambaka to visit the extraordinary Meteora. In the afternoon we return on the Ionian Coast. A Igoumenitsa, around 17 hours, found the hotel near the port.

? Tuesday, 09.08.83
Visited Parga, do some buying, bathing and picnic in a uliveto.Al back we stopped in the flat immediately after the marshy pond formed by the rivers Acheron and Cocinto where was the oracle which was used to communicate with the dead. Spend the night in Igoumenitsa.

? Wednesday '10.08.83
Day on the beach in a bay 6 km from Igoumenitsa.
We lunched and dined on the beach. see lobsters and fin fish on the shore and many starfish.

? Thursday '11.08.83
Departure from Igoumenitsa to 6 hours to take the ferry to Corfu to 7.30.
A Corfu (Kerkira) turn to stores, we see a parade of bands and do a lap in the car on the island. We find a hotel near the port and do a tour in horse drawn carriage, then dinner on the terrace of the hotel.

? Friday, 12.08.83
Leaving from Kerkira delivered by ship to Greece to Brindisi 9. Alle17.30 In Italy. We quickly Bari, Naples, Frosinone. Here we make a stop, the journey by ship was hallucinating because the ship was overflowing, the food, after a few hours it was already finished and we left without eating and without the possibility of going by car, where we had biscuits. The result was that my father wants to return directly home and then while I sleep, make a stop on the motorway a few hours to rest. During the night, however, we are awakened by an earthquake.

? Saturday 13.08.83
Visit Siena, we breakfast in a bar in Siena and we get into sixth. Visiting the square already set up for the palio and the Duomo. To see Volterra alabaster shops and buy the furnishings. We visit the Etruscan museum. A visit of Pisa Campo dei Miracoli and the leaning tower. In the evening we get cooked in Chiavari, where sleep.

Journey time: 17 days
Route by car: 5,000 km
Duration of the ferry: 12:30 hours