Kórinthos, Temple of Apollo

The ruins of Kórinthos (ancient Corinth), spreads over a vast area. This photo shows the remaining columns of the Temple of Apollo, while behind me, there is a large area of ruins from thousands of years ago. Only the central area of the ancient city, around the Roman forum and the Temple of Apollo, is preserved, the rest is often overgrown with plants. It was interesting to come across a variety of ruins unexpectedly while walking about the village, then we walked part of the way up the mountain to Acrocorinth. Like its ancient predecessor, modern Corinth has been leveled on several occasions by earthquakes, most recently in 1981.

Corinth, is a rather little town with nothing much that looked overly exciting for a tourist, at least partly because of the need to rebuild the town as a result of the 1981 earthquake, and other quakes over the years. While waiting for Emmy’s visit at the hairdresser, I stopped in an appliance store. Just for fun I looked refrigerators and found they had a GE Refrigerator, exactly the same model as the one we bought at Sears a year ago (except this one was 220 volt), and the price was more than twice what we paid. The store owner’s name was Napoleon Tzafis. He could speak English, and was very interested in talking to me about any subject. A very interesting man, and an educational visit. He was happy to look inside our RV, and said he would like to buy it from us.

We found railroad crossings in Greece to be very rough. We haven’t noticed one yet we can cross at a reasonable speed, and certainly not at the speed limit. That’s true in Athens and other cities, and in the countryside. At a railway crossing near Kórinthos, we saw a man in a little shack waiting for a train. He would use the hand crank to raise and lower the gate.