1. Peloponessos
The Peloponnese is a region of southern Greece. The beginning of the Peloponnese is just an easy hour an a half drive from Athens along a modern motorway, past Pireaus, around the Saronic Gulf and over the Corinth Canal.
Geographically the Peloponnese is shaped a little like a hand with four 'fingers' or peninsulas pointing south into the Argolic Gulf, the Laconian Gulf or the Messenian Gulf.
Our first stay was the charming and romantic coastal town of Napflion - the first capital of modern Greece, that is the 'new' Greece after the war of independence against the Ottoman Empire. As well as a cobblestoned old town, a beautiful sea front, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman architecture, and a pretty square full of tavernas, Napflio has the colossal Fortress of Palamidi high on a mountain overlooking the town.
Every day is an explosive 38ºc - quite the start to our Greek summer!
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| Pretty Napflion |
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| Seafront tavernas |
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| Little squares at every turn |
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| A peak at the bastion walls high up on The Fortress of Palamidi |
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| Looking forward to the first pitta gyros of the summer - in Greece they're small and filled with delicious meat and salad with yoghurt or tzatziki. only €3 and utterly delicious! |
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| From our apartment the illuminated Fortress of Palamidi |
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