Day 5: Areopolis and Mycenae

H: Ready to delve into a beehive tomb 😁
H: Slight upper leg muscle ache this morning. Weather looking perfect 23 and sunny 👍
K: Well built mycenae, rich in gold
K: do you 🤔 i’ll find 😋 🍯 in the beehive?

Mycenae – Founded by Perseus, the slayer of Medusa the Gorgon, the one with the snake hair. There are 7 stone beehives monuments with domes as high as 43 feet at the apex. Splendid mechanical skills in masonry work. Enter the acropolis via the Lion Gate, and fine inside the ruins of grave circles, place buildings and underground cisterns. Lots of lovely art and cultural exhibits in the musem.

H: Poor Heinrich Schliemann the archaeologist. Thought he’d discovered the body of the king of agamemnon at mycenae 🙄. Oops. Hope theres no more steps today. Leg muscles letting me know of their existence 😁
K: maybe you can borrow zorba for a bit if deep massage..
K: still in theory there’s a day off tomorrow. tho areopolis doesn’t look that exciting and the excursion to monemvasia looks like a 5 hour round trip. 🤔 mmmm or gave I got the wrong place!
H: According to my google map it’s an hour 37 mins😁. At least have had chance to sit on the bus for a while🙂
K: rest your muscles.. 💪

H: This is described on the hotel website as the double room😆

K: 😂 😂 😂

K: feel like my floor may look like your photo, which is very blurry.. drunken blurry! before the nights out.. and I wasn’t going to have a drink tonight… oh and there’s 👏. 😨

H: Too much raki?!
K: ouzo.. raki is Turkish. political faux pas.. 😆
H: They called it raking in crete😆
H: Raki

Ouzo – Greek aperitif traditionally produced in copper stills, alcohol is mixed with water, aniseed, and other herbs and spices like fennel, cloves, and coriander. When water or ice is added to it, the anise makes it turn a cloudy white colour, which is how most people know it.

Raki – essentially spirits made on the island of Crete carry different names from the ones made in the rest of Greece. The name raki came with the Turks, who used the name for their own traditional spirit to describe the one they found on Crete.

H: How about this restaurant for tea? Mind u the waiters look a bit young 🥴

K: keep it in the family! 😂 less expenses.. At least these children are not naked photos on the waiters phone!

Areopolis – Inland town on the Mani Peninsular with houses built from local stone and where the only things of interest lie around the main square, which is dominated by an 18thc Church with a 4 storey bell tower. Milia Bakery makes scrummy pies in wood fired ovens. Stunning mountain scenery with wild arid landscapes. Hope its better in the real world than the virtual one!