Blog Mike

I woke up early, at 5AM, and needed to catch at Delphi. I first needed to catch the local bus to the main bus station, but this turned out to be more difficult then I imagined. I was told what stop to get off at, but could not read the names of the stop outside of the bus, as they were all in Greek letters. When we reached the end of the line, I asked the bus driver where the stop was and he motioned that we passed it. Great. I needed to be on a 7:30 bus and there was no way I was going to get there in time. By the time we got back around to my stop it was 7:45 and I had missed the bus. I had to wait until 10 in order to catch the 3 hour bus to Delphi.

I arrived in Delphi on time, around 1 and had 2-1/2 hours to see everything and catch the 3:30 bus back. Delphi is now a bunch of ruins, but at one time was home to the Oracle. Delphi was said to be the center of the world and where people went to worship the god Apollo. On the way back, we could see from the freeway the huge fire that was destroying Athens. Lots of planes were circling and dropping water, trying to keep the fires contained as much as possible.