Moving on – we head out of the parking lot for the museum, trying to miss running over the 3 dogs lying in the street (they are everywhere – if it’s not cats, it’s dogs!), and head up the mountain to AkroKorinthos. This is the oldest and grandest castle in the Peloponnese. The walls were built around the middle ages, and it is considered the residence of the Sun God. We could see it when we were down at the archeological site, and it looks totally cool.
The drive up is wild – no guard rails, heck, no shoulders. Just a drop off the edge down into oblivion. Ed makes it look easy, taking the curves and corners with ease. We make it to the top in no time, with no opposing traffic, which is nice.
The views from up here are amazing. We spend quite a bit of time just at the bottom of the castle entrance taking pix.
We start the climb up to the top of the castle, stopping constantly for pictures. It’s just too pretty not to click away!
We stop climbing about halfway up, in what looks like it could have been a courtyard. Great blossoming flower trees (it really is spring here soon – even if the wind up here makes you believe it is still winter!) and really good long-view vantage points. Well worth the narrow, hair pin curve road.
Ok, we’ve worked up an appetite! We’re going back down the mountain to Marino’s Taverna, in the middle of the old Korinthos-town, for a good, old fashion Greek meal.
It’s easy getting back down the mountain to town, and we find a parking lot below the tavern quite easily. It’s just noon, and we are the first customers (well, if you don’t count Grandma who’s already sitting there with her food and drink). We take a table near the fake fireplace (newly affixed to the bar – new because once the regulars start showing up, they all comment on it!).
It’s a great little place, complete with a mural of the ancient ruins site.
Cozy and warm, we order 2 Mythos, Saganaki (the fried cheese), Grilled Octopus for Ed and Souvlaki for me. Yum. The food is fabulous. Too much, but fabulous.
And the atmosphere is the best. We get to sit and watch the locals come in to smoke (yes, they are smoking inside!) and chat and eat. We get handed off from son (takes our order, then goes to cook) to Dad to Daughter, it’s definitely a family affair. After we finish stuffing our faces, Ed makes the international sign for the check. But Dad brings us dessert instead. Hmmmmm….maybe Ed has discovered the international sign for dessert??
Whatever it is, it is good! Ed even enjoys it. So now, we have to really get the check. It takes a while, but we finally get the bill. 32 Euros – a bargain. We want to use the credit card, but the reader is giving them fits. First daughter tries it, won’t work. Then Dad comes over, he takes it – moves it all over the building, then outside, then takes it to the front – not happening. We finally say we’ll use cash – but it was hysterical watching them try to figure the machine out.
Finally paid and done, we head outside into the little village, buy some beer at the grocery and start our trek back to Piraeus.
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