Mycenae and Nafplion (Opa!)

On Wednesday, June 13^th, we went to the Bronze-Age ruins of Mycenae, famed from Homer’s Iliad as the city of Agamemnon, greatest king and leader of the Greeks besieging Troy.  The two most interesting things there are the huge, domed tomb, miscalled the “Treasury of Atreus,” and the Lion Gate.

We went back to Nafplion and had lunch at the Psarotaverna (fish tavern) Savouras, by the harbor—good.

After lunch, we visited the Archaeological Museum, a small but interesting collection that included a complete set of 15^th-century B.C. armor.

Then, missing Sicily, we had to have our fix of genuine Italian gelato, from the Antica Gelateria di Roma.  Buonissimo, or, rather poli kalo!

In the evening, the group walked east a number of blocks into the new town, to a tavern called Psyras, where we had dinner with music (again, guitar and bouzouki—the bouzouki is a sort of large mandolin) and folk dancing from a costumed troupe of two men and two women.  Later, Danae joined the dancing—she was very good at it!  Then, we were all pulled in.  A lot of fun.