Delphi, Greece

The landscape near Lavadia is completely different to that of Athens. We were surrounded by snowy peaks, and cars with snow dusted all over them. The one street villages seemed completely empty, and I could imagine that they are over crowded in tourist season. We met a 75 year old man who bought us tea, he was an American and he sort of adopted us for the day. We visited the remains of Delphi, an ancient city carved into the side of a mountain. It consisted of a stadium, Amphitheatre, several treasuries where a city would donate wealth to a priest, an alter and a temple. The Oracle of Delphi was a prophetess who would sacrifice animals, and then talk in tongues. People came from all over the world to see her. It is all very well preserved and the air is positively sterile compared to that of Athens. The next stop on our journey was Katarini, where we planned to make our way to a small village were we had the address and name of the sister of a man my Dad knew! And of course we were hoping to be welcomed, fed and given free accommodation. The train was to take 5 hours so we decided to wait until the train at 2am so that we would arrive at a normal hour, and be able to call the man's sister. So we spent the remaining time in the Lavadia waiting room at the train station.