December 29, 2005
What a fantastic morning! I woke up around 6:00 am and stepped out onto the balcony, and amidst the stars I could see the villages surrounding the Bay of Corinth. Looming over them I could just see the snowcapped mountains, finally visible now that the clouds and rain had cleared. It was chilly, but I was perfectly comfortable even without my shirt. And then it happened: a rooster crowed. It was all so perfect it was bordering on absurd! Nik and Adam woke up cheerful without the wakeup call (which we never got!), and seemed to have slept just as well as I.
Breakfast was a buffet of breads, jams, coffee, juice, tea, hot cocoa, and a massive basket of hardboiled eggs; just what I needed! It helped that we dined just inside a marble terrace overlooking the aforementioned view, only from a higher vantage point.
We left Delphi soon after, passed through miles and miles of olive trees (which we saw them harvesting, an event that takes place once every two years!), and now we're driving along the winding rode that follows the Bay of Corinth to the bridge that leads to the Peloponnese. In about three hours we will be in Olympia, where we will spend the balance of the day and sleep tonight.
Foreign travel should be mandatory for teenagers.
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