Eating breakfast below the Temple of Poseidon has to be a “thing to do before you die”. As soon as we could persuade the children, we dinghied to shore and began the long climb up the hill to the temple. Jamie H and Jordan were first to arrive at the top, I trailled in last...
Thirty years ago, when Chris and I visited the Parthenon, we could scramble over most of the ruins and you could really see and imagine and wonder. Now, sites like Poseidon’s temple are roped off and the only perspective is as an outsider looking in. That said, the view from outside was magnificent – it’s truly awe-inspiring that magnificent, beautiful columns like these were built on the top of a hill without advanced technology. We did look for, but couldn’t find, Byron’s graffiti – shame!
After lunch and a swim off the boat, we set sail for Kea – our first Cycladian island.
Pictures: Breakfast under the Temple of Poseidon (click on it to actually see the temple!), The Temple (with us for scale), Hakuna Matata from the Temple (the catamaran).
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