Max here again. As Nikki said, yesterday we piled in the little hooptie Hyundai and headed for greener Greek pastures. Driving out of the big city was accomplished without too much drama and I drove toward the Peloponnese. Athens is perhaps the city of great philosophers and Hellenistic heroes, but now it is a cramped metropolis that smells of piss, garbage and stray dogs. Athens is worth seeing for sure, but don't spend more than a day there. Whereas the city fa...

Hello all! Today we are in Napflio. Yesterday morning we were able to call the car rental place and they picked us up at our hotel at noon. We were on our way out of Athens (the armpit of Greece, mind you,) and out into the unknown by 12:30. We made it to Corinth and saw Akrokorinth (Ancient Corinth.) Finding the right place was quite the cluster. The road and street signs are very difficult to read. Sometimes they match the map, and sometimes they don't. T...