Athens and Peloponnese - Day 11

We packed up and left the apartment in Nafplio just before 10am. We drove north for 25 minutes to ancient Mycenae, paid our 24 euros entry fee and went in. It was a very impressive site and very old, mostly about 1200 BC.

There are beehive tombs, houses, circular graves, houses etc.

We went down a pitch dark staircase to the old cistern.

We also visited the museum containing artefacts (some replicas) recovered from the site.

After leaving we drove the short distance to the Treasury, which was actually a massive domed tomb, which in its time had been the largest domed building in the world for 1000 years.

We then drove back towards Athens, and stopped for lunch at the Corinth canal, where we'd been exactly a week earlier

We went further east beyond Athens and stopped at the end of the peninsula at Vouliagmeni. It was very hot, we walked down onto the rocks by the sea and then up a hill.

It was obviously some kind of cat sanctuary as there were lots of boxes and feeding bowls.

Next we drove to Lagonisi and went for a walk along the beach, having a drink in a tavern on the sand.

Then we went for our final dinner at Souvlistas, double burgers for a total of 20 euros.

On the way to the airport we filled with petrol, then handed the car back to Thrifty.

The flight home was originally being reported as 45 minutes late, but they pulled it in a bit and we ended up arriving at Edinburgh airport only 10 minutes late at 1.05 am.

We got a taxi home, had a wee dram then went to bed.