You Have To Learn The Hard Way

Our group started off the day with another trip to an archaeological site before going out on another long round of driving, this time to the site at Olympia as promised the day before. It was a pretty nifty site though I can only imagine how much more impressive it was when the statue of Olympian Zeus was still there. Unfortunately, the day before probably would've been a better day to go for the site was packed with tourists. It may sound hypocritical of me to cite that as a criticism, but at least our group isn't getting in the way of other people's photos and posing on top of the stones. When taking my faith into consideration, it's borderline desecration! How would you like it if I took a picture of me with my arm around a statue of Christ? Not exactly respectful...

But the drive was another 3-4 hour trek as we journeyed from Olympia to Naflion (Another one of those regions that gets me with the spelling. Like Siphnos before it, Spell Check doesn't recognize it...). Highlights include the usual iPod listening, stopping to briefly grab lunch, brief lectures after the stops, and stopping by another set of ruins at Tiryns. While these were not as elaborate as some on past sites, it was still pretty cool to check out.

We arrived at Naflion around the same time we arrived at the last few destinations and have largely had a free day since then. Thus my evening has been spent working with the internet (The signal is terrible...), wandering about the streets, grabbing dinner at a pizzeria after learning that one that I was thinking of checking out was closed, doing some reading for a class, writing an entry for my personal journal, and listening to some music all the while. I kinda feel like going out to get a snack at some point soon. Maybe I'll look for a decent internet cafe while I'm out...