Today after leaving Athens we stopped along the way to Delphi at a Byzantine Monastery at Hosias Loukas. The 1000 year old monastery was quite ornate and I even bought some of the honey made by the monks (although I wish they had beer). The stereotype that Americans are loud is absolute BS. A group of Greek middle or high schoolers were screaming out theirs lungs on the monastery grounds. Eva even yelled at them for disrespecting the solitude.
After lunch we passed the spot from Oedipus Rex where three roads meet. Unfortunately, now there’s just an overpass and two roads so it wasn’t quite like ancient times.
We didn’t trek up to the main Temple of Apollo on the upper portion of the Delphi ruins, but we did visit the Temple of Athena Pronaia, which was good, but still doesn’t beat the Acropolis. We also drank from the waters here which are said to cleanse or bring good fortune, etc.
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