After spending all night in the Istanbul airport (I'll write a book about how much fun that was), we finally landed in Athens. Once arrived we attempted to pick up our rent-a-car from Thrifty. This turned into a three-ring circus, with someone getting mad and someone acting bad and someone being had, but after much bickering, dickering and paying through the nose we managed to drive off toward Kokoni.
We drove the highway, the toll roads and then some very narrow beach roads through some very narrow little towns, in freakin' Greece, y'know. We reached our hotel about two hours later, got the scoop on a good local place to eat lunch (actually, everything is local in a town of 500 inhabitants), ate a delicious repast then headed back to the hotel for showers and rest. I hit the sack at 4:00 p.m.; Toby and Cheryl went to sleep at 5:00 p.m. We were all abruptly awaken 15/16 hours later at 08:00 the next day.
After a couple of false starts we located Ancient Korinthos with its beautiful ruins of churches and museum filled with antiquities. We found out (the hard way) that there is an interesting regulation in Greece: When Melina Mercouri was the Minister of Culture she established a law that it is OK to take pictures of items in museums (without flash, of course) but it is forbidden to take pictures of any live person alongside. Apparently that disrespects the sacredness of the treasures.
Having just barely avoided arrest and incarceration, we ate lunch at an outdoor restaurant with 6 of Korinthos's finest canines, then headed off to Sparta.
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