We got up at 6.30am for an alright breakfast before doing a three-hour tour of Olympia to visit the site of the first Olympic Games. Then we stopped for lunch in the town of Olympia where I desperately wanted some baklava. Poor Darryn has run half way across town to get me some…he’s been gone for a while now and I'm starting to worry a little. Oh, here he is running back down the street with my baklava.
Darryn is so sweet. He got me baklava and I was happy because I was craving it. It's so good. It's just puff pastry, nuts and honey baked in the oven...but it's the most delicious thing ever. Anyway, we got back on the bus and headed towards Delphi, a delightfully small town with just two streets: the upper and the lower. Delphi is on top of a mountain, and our hotel was at the top of Delphi, so the view from our room is pretty spectacular. The hotel had a pool and a gym, but neither in very good working order, so we decided to skip that. Dinner was set, not a buffet like at the last hotels. This sounded promising at first, but sadly it left a lot to be desired. We had lemon chicken soup (good), eggplant with Bechamel sauce (great) veal with potatoes and salad (very bad) and panacotta (very, very bad). I was hoping that some baklava would appear, but alas, it did not. The hotel's internet (one computer in a corner with a chair) was supposed to be free, and, like all free things, it didn't work. So after dinner Darryn and I decided to head out and explore the town. Darryn finally found his photography feet and he took some great shots of the city lights and the view of the surrounding countryside. We walked into town where we found a reasonably priced Internet cafe and we caught up on emails. Then we walked the rest of the town (about two minutes) before heading back to the hotel.
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