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9:30pm: back at the hotel after another long fun day. It was raining when we woke up but luckily it didn’t last long. We got up a bit earlier today, had another fabulous breakfast at the hotel, and set out for the ancient ruins of Mycenae, which are in a beautiful countryside setting dotted with vineyards and olive trees, rolling hills, and cypress. The ruins themselves are at the top of a hill. We explored that and their museum for a bit.
We then drove around the area near Mycenae called Nemea, which is a well-known wine area. We weren’t sure of our exact schedule and I did not put the same kind of planning into this trip as others, so we did not have a reservation at any wineries. The tradition in Greece seems to be you make an appointment and get a tasting as well as some food and sometimes even a tour. It is the harvest time right now so that would have been fun. Anyway, we went to the ancient ruins of Nemea, which were small but still interesting, and a winery right in front of it was harvesting.
We then took a different route back to Nafplio and drove past a winery that looked like it was open for walk-ins so we took a chance and he let us do a little tasting and showed us his cellar. Very nice guy, We bought a 7 euro bottle of rose. We made it back to Nafplio around 2pm, found parking, and ate lunch at Alaloum, right around the corner from our hotel. I had “rooster in wine sauce” and it was delicious; Matt had a burger. We then went to the shop of a weaver we had walked through yesterday and did a bit of damage. She is an eccentric character and makes everything on the loom in the back of her shop. She was feeding us grapes while we were paying? As an aside, the minimum pend to get the VAT back here is only 50 euro, bu very few totes seem to want to deal with the paperwork and participate. That is frustrating because technically we could get back 24% anywhere we spend 50 euros in one go.
Anyway, we made it back to the hotel around 3:30 and took a rest. We set out again around 5:30 because we had reserved a wine tasting at Koronis, apparently the best wine shop in town. we were there with a group of 9 annoying Canadians but we tasted 5 typical Greek wines and the owner was very interesting and fun. We stopped somewhere for a drink as we weren’t quite hungry yet, then went to Kastro Karima for dinner, which I had read about a couple places. Pretty traditional place - we both had chicken and split a nice salad to start.
Tomorrow we will check out the Saturday market here before going to our next stop a little more remote into the Peloponnese - Kardamyli!
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