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Final Post and Pics from Our Greece Trip

Wow, it’s been a busy return from our trip. Trenna says this was probably our best trip ever. I can’t disagree. Everything went so well and everything we saw and did was just amazing.

Into the Peloponnesus

Agamemnon's death mask — Agamemnon’s death mask

Sorry for the Lack of Posts

We’re back in Athens for the last time on this trip, after spending an incredible time in Nafplion, Greece. What an amazingly quaint village in the Peloponnesus region of southern Greece. We drove down on Thursday morning, visiting ancient Corinth on the way, and spent Thursday evening and Friday there. Today (Friday) was (one of) Greece’s Independence Day celebrations, so it was really great to be there during their celebrations. The food was great and the people were so wonderful. Wow!!!

We get up at 3:30AM to go to the airport for a 6AM (11PM Friday Eastern Time) flight to Amsterdam. We have an 8.5 hour layover, so we hope to get into town for a bit and see the sights before flying from there to Atlanta. Looks like we’re supposed to get to ATL at 8:20PM.

I hope to post pics from our last leg in Greece tomorrow.

Wow, Turkey Is Awesome!!!

We’re back in Athens now, but wish we could have spent much more time in Turkey. I loved everything about it! Great people, great food, great sites. And their infrastructure blew me away. Easily the equal of the US.

Here are a few rough pics of what we saw in our quick 48 hours in Turkey:

Pamukkale, an amazing geothermal site that flows down from Hierapolis.

Our view from the Doubletree. Kusadasai harbor with pigeon castle.

The amazing baker. Best pita I've ever had! Cooked fresh in a brick oven. — The amazing baker. Best pita I’ve ever had! Cooked fresh in a brick oven.

The meat chef. Wow, were the kabobs great!!!

I’ll write more about the meal we had at Oz Orfa later.

Ephesus Was Fantastic!!!

We went to the ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus today!!! It was just magnificent! Certainly one of Trenna’s favorite places ever. And very photogenic.

Her name is Scholastica. She gave them a hand rebuilding the baths.

The library. Aw, Bubba, nobody goes there.

The Great Theater. Paul stood there and preached against Artemis. Like in a dream, I stood there and quoted Paul sharing the Gospel to the 25,000 seat amphitheater. Unfortunately, every seat was empty, except one, Trenna.

For some reason, everywhere we go is overrun with cats!

In the WC sink. Did I mention there were lots of cats???

Pics from Athens

Sorry it has taken me a bit of time to download and review the pics I shot in Athens. Here are a very few. Of course Trenna is posting 10x as many on FB. (Maybe I should just leave this all to her!!!)

Pics up through day 13 (yesterday)

Sorry there hasn’t been time or energy to go through the hundreds of pictures I’ve shot. Here are a few mostly unprocessed shots of some of the main spots we’ve visited. Of course when this is all over I’ll go through all of the pics and post a real gallery of the best shots.