Alright.
So.
My last post was a little sparse, prior to the photographs, and even then, the photographs were just a dump of pictures from the past few days. So here I sit in Nafplio, having just reached our hotel, not yet gone to dinner, but having already gone and put my stuff in my room. Probably too many participles in that sentence... Anyway, it's gorgeous here, our hotel is on the coast; I'll get pictures on here later. (Here is a link about it: http://www.allgreecetravel.com/peloponnese/agamemnon_hotel_nafplion.asp)

Today, on the ride from Athens to Nafplio, we stopped in Corinth, and visited the old Greek/Roman agora/forum, then visited Acrocorinth (where there is a medieval castle built around the old acropolis), which was entertaining. You can see the whole isthmus from some of the heights around there, and I did get pictures to make into a panorama, so I'll put that up later as well.

We went to Sounion from Athens last night, and watched a gorgeous sunset from the place where Aegeus is said to have jumped into the sea, giving the Aegean its name. Look it up; it has to do with Theseus betraying his father (I.M.O.) and dumping the woman who saved his ass on Naxos. Just saying.

Anyway, Sounion was gorgeous:

Yeah. Seriously. So pretty. I need to check my saturation on one of those images, because I can barely see anything on my computer screen right now if it isn't black and white, but I'll be working on that tonight, and then remedying the situation.

The breeze here off the sea is great, and it smells of salt water.

Oh!

Details on Santorini that I never gave:

Okay, so I ended up involved in a donkey race, because I rode a donkey up the caldera from the harbor (Santorini is made up of a few islands, because of a 17th century B.C. volcano) and another of the girls on the trip was on a donkey that we're pretty sure was my donkey's brother, which led to a nine-donkey race up the mountain, which I won; it was highly entertaining, because all the donkeys really knew the way already, and, as Dr. Summers said, "They have to find ways of entertaining themselves!"

As far as the hot springs, I don't have any pictures because we had to swim probably a few hundred feet from the boat to reach them, but I was the first off the boat, leaping into the Mediterranean feet-first. As I pushed my head above water, someone asked me how it was; about the temperature of a nice pool in summer, really; "Salty!" I replied before swimming to the muddy waters of the springs, which were about the temperature of a warm bath. The mud was so nice; I want some for my garden. You can tell it was full of all sorts of healthy nutrients for plants and people alike. Actually, while we were there, there were some goats on the cliffs above the springs, looking down at us, and one which we were encouraging to dive headfirst into the spring. I'd have applauded the little guy.

The volcano was... well, it was a volcano. It was inactive at the moment, so it was mostly just fertile rocks with some flowers nudged in between. Otherwise, it was pretty dull. But cool.

Now it's time for dinner.

I'll get back with you later.