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| Coffee stop in Kardamili |
Our next stop was Olympia. On the way there we stopped at the town of Kardamili to have a cup of coffee. For a small town like that it had many appealing looking Cafes. I also wanted to stop at the sea and make walk on the beach close to the city of Pirgos.
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| Beach some where close to Pirgos |
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| Hotel Pelops in Olympia |
In Olympia we spent two nights in the hotel Pelops. The hotel itself is
nothing special but the staff was super friendly and the room was very
clean. Double room was 40 euros/night which we find to be a really good price.
The hotel staff gave us a good tip where to have dinner and they also suggested us some places to visit. The main attraction in the area is of course the Ancient Olympia which is very conveniently only about ten minutes walk from the hotel. By the way, we had booked our room without breakfast. There are enough Cafes around to have one's breakfast so no need to book one with the hotel
Our dinner we had at a small taverna quite close to the hotel. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the place but it was recommended to us by our hotel. They said that it's the place where the locals go to. We actually had dinner there during the both evenings we stayed in Olympia...I know, I know: I just mentioned in the last post that we usually eat in different places. But this taverna was quite sympatic and they had really good food. Both evenings there we some locals having dinner and they also seemed to have a quite busy take delivery service so I guess that people at the hotel new what the locals like.
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| Pastitsio - Greek pasta casserole |
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| Baked feta at the front and grilled lamd with french fries at the back |
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| The Stadium in the Ancient Olympia |
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| Temple of Zeus in the Ancient Olympia |
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| A tiny botanical garden next to the acheological museum. A really interesting place to visit because all the plants are good named and the mythological story of the plant is also explaned. Unfortunately most of the tourists probably pass it as uninteresting without entering. |
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| Greek beer |
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| Tzatziki (we were surprised about the carrots in it) at the front and Greek salad at the back. |
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| Pork souvlakia with pita, tomato and onions |
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| Moussaka |
On our third morning we checked out and and grabbed a bite to go from a small bakery shop. We had about four hour drive to Nafplio ahead of us. The people at the hotel suggested us some places to stop on the way. The nicest stop we made was in the village of Langadia: a totally lovely and cute small town with stone houses and on the mountain slope. There were couple nice looking stores selling traditional food items and handcrafts. We bought two handmade rugs and also sat down to coffe in one of the cafes with a superb view
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| Different kind of puff pastries filled with things like ham, cheese, feta cheese, spinach etc. |
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| Different kinds of small and extremely sweet baklavas. |
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| On the way over the mountains to Nafplio |
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| A shop with so many different food items in Langadia |
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| Grandpa meeting an a local Cafe |
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| Coffee break |
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| The town of Langadia |
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| The town of Langadia |
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