On the First Day of Our Holiday in the Peloponnese

-- the Wugster is sitting up in bed doing the numberwangs.



Tomorrow we visit the near-vanished site of Asine and then explore the old town of Nafplio, first capital of independent Greece following its successful overthrow of the Ottoman yoke in 1833. Our tour will conclude with a climb of the 967 steps to the Palamidi Fortress overlooking the town, the views from which are apparently excellent....