Greek ruins and sandy beaches

Yesterday we got back  from an amazing 3-day field trip to Nafplion. Nafplion is a beautiful city on the Peloponnese peninsula with lots of historical sites. The trip included going to Mycenae and the Mycenae museum, (a very important and famous site) Tiryns, (another important place) the Archaeological Museum of Napfplion,  and Epidaurus. These are all major sites and cities in the history of Greece.  On the way to Nafplion, we stopped in Corinth and went over the Canal that separates the mainland and the Peloponnese. we got to Nafplion we checked into our nice hotel and then went to find a place to eat dinner. I went with some of the group to a lovely little restaraunt and had delicious food. The next morning we went to Mycenae and the Mycenae museum, which was very cool because our professor specialized in the site of Mycenae and had participated in the archaeological digs there and he knew a lot about it. After that we had our beach time, which was my favorite part of the trip! After walking around in the hot sun it felt amazing to jump in to the Medeterranean  and swim for a couple of hours. The water was clear, the weather was great and everybody had a good time. Some of us swam a little farther out and saw lots of different kinds of fish! I got lots of freckles and re-applied sunscreen a lot. When we got back from the beach we ate our dinner at a grill that was almost fast food-like, except with Greek food. The had delicious Gyros and souvlaki.