A trip to Corinth and a winery

Corinth and the wine tour: After returning from Santorini we didn't have too many plans but we thought a trip out of Athens would show us the Countryside. It did. Two hours on the bus, must say we don't know what is worse; a tour guide that never shuts up or one that just sits there waiting for questions. This guide talked non-stop for five hours.Travelling South we saw the Coast and its inlets and the lowland crop farming. Arriving at the Corinth Canal we stopped at the first truck stop I have seen dedicated to tourists, and the number of tourists must be down because half of the building catering to tourists have shut down. The idea of a canal that connects the Aegean Sea and the Gulf of Corinth has been around since the birth of Christ but only in the 1880s did anybody do anything about it. The problem is that although it works it is too small for normal shipping. Read the wiki here. 

Corinth is another settlement that has been excavated to reveal complete civilisations. The museum holds some of the relics found on site and the site has some building foundations that show the culture of the time. The large Agora in the middle of the site, the tree on the left is in the middle of the Agora (public place/Mall) and was the place that the Apostle Paul preached to the Corinthians. The claim to fame on this site was the Peirene Fountain (pic on the right). One storey of this two storey building remains and one can see the former magnificance still. And the large columns of the Temple of Apollo still stand (picture at the head of the post). These columns are different from other columns we have seen in that they have been carved out of one piece of sandstone as opposed to the usual marble columns that are assembled in pieces.

Moving on to the winery we turned up at the Skouras winery - check out their website, this outfit bottles seventeen labels and a few million bottles a year. It has won tons of awards and is very successful. The wine doesn't taste too bad either - we bought a bottle after we found that out in a tasting session during the quick tour of the property.

Back to the hotel - only two more days left.