On the way to Delphi

On a day trip to Delphi - Eva and I couldn't exit the metro at the airport where we picked up the hire car, and were helped by a muttering, pass-waving cleaning lady, definitely Hermes coming to our aid...via Levadia, mountains and clear mountain streams, iced coffee by the water, twisted ancient shady plane trees, elegant Ottoman stone bridges, peace and beauty on a small but intensely satisfying scale. Want to explore up the gorge and the Oracle cave, but no time for everything, so tell a little conscious lie that will do it "next time"..met a cotton farmer over coffee and wondered at the rocks (Greece is rocks and sea and sky) and marching dark pencils of the cypresses, like the lances of petrified pagan warriors of old..past Mt Parnassos and plains of olives to Delphi...Read more