Napflios, Greece

Katie and I made it to Greece!

The view of the islands from the boat is worth the sketchy ferry ride*:

Once in Greece we headed south on the Peloponnesse, and stayed in the little resort town of Napflios. We explored the ancient sites from here, but the town itself was fantastic and worth seeing all on it's own!

The center square, pretty cute!


And the walk along the harbour was breathtaking
... and occasionally covered in cactus (not pictured, too strange)


I've never seen water this clear and happy in a port town ... these are genuine sea urchins!!

Napflios was also great because it wasn't crowded with tourists, and when it was, they were all Greek anyway.

The town has lots of local color: Katie and I stumbled upon this totally inexplicable religious festival with band and military dignitaries in the middle of the morning. Later that evening, we came upon it again, this time in the form of a procession, with at least a dozen priests parading an enormous Icon through the streets and chanting. The band was still there. Seriously cool people.

The band and military in front of the church ... why?


A procession, we assume related, in the middle of the evening.

We followed it all the way to a church located by our hotel, and found out later that they do this every year with the Icon of St. Constantine and Helen on St. Constantine's day.

I took a video of some of the event ... what was most astounding was that the entire town seemed to be there. My video of the late-night religious procession.

*actually, the ferry itself was strangely like a cruise experience, only filled with creepy Greek stewards who wanted us to overpay for our tickets for no reason.