Greece (Aug 2006) - Athens

Our 3-week Greek Odyssey started in Athens. Here, we visited the Parthenon (top row, middle pic) on the Acropolis (the first of many hills we did not realize we would be climbing to see the archeological sites), and we also saw the Caryatid Porch of Erechtheion (top row, 3rd pic), supported on the heads of 6 shapely maidens (caryatids).

The middle row shows the Parliament building in Syntagma (1st pic), ruins on Ancient Agora (2nd pic) and a tombstone on the "Street of Tombs" (3rd pic).

The bottom row shows the reflection of the Acropolis (1st pic), Greece flag (2nd pic) and one of few cow figurines (last pic) scattered around the city. The one you see is titled "Greek Time". :-)

Greece - Delphi, Olympia, Nafplio

We spent a night in Delphi, where we saw a gigantic winged sphinx (top row, middle pic) in the Delphi museum the next day before we left for Olympia (middle row, 1st pic). In Olympia, we visited the place where they lit the first Olympic flame (middle row, 3rd pic). We next stayed 4 nights in Nafplio (bottom row, 1st pic), where we made day trips to Mycenae to see the Lion Gate (bottom row, middle pic) and the theatre of Epidavros (bottom row, last pic), where a coin dropped in the centre can be heard from the highest seat.