Amateur Traveler episode 833. Today the amateur traveler talks about fairies,

fortresses, and feta, beaches and beehive tombs, Thermopylae, and the Trojan War as we go to the Peloponnese Peninsula in southern Greece.

Hi this is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler.

Let's talk about the Peloponnes.

This is Chris again and the show that you're going to hear was recorded as one large show including the section from episode 832 on Athens which I've taken out and

put in a separate episode just for length. If you've already heard the Athens

episode you can skip over the first four and a half minutes of this one, it will be the same.

I hope you enjoy this episode.

I'd like to welcome to the show Sally Jane Smith travel writer who has come to talk to us

about a region of Greece Sally Jane welcome to the show.

Thank you Chris it feels quite surreal actually to be sitting here after all these years of listening to you on my walk to work.

Well, I appreciate your listening. What region of Greece are we going to talk about today?

So today I'm going to talk about today?

So today I'm going to focus on an itinerary

that starts in Athens, because that's

where most people will enter Greece,

and then travels along the eastern half of the Peloponnese and a couple of the Sironic islands.

So this is a collection of sites you can see quite comfortably in about nine days, traveling

by bus, metro and ferry. Of course you can stay longer, but with these nine days you can

have a satisfying experience of what this region of Greece has to offer.

Excellent. And when we say the Peloponnese, we're talking about a peninsula or an island, depending on how one defines it these days, which is the southern third of Greece, starting in Corinth. Yes, so if you're looking at a map of Greece there is a peninsula that sort of looks like a hand that's

stretching down towards the Mediterranean.

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