Now for some culture! Ancient Delphi was, we decided, a must see. We started with the archaeological museum- filled with the more precious or delicate of the finds, including an ancient bronze life-size statue of a charioteer and incredibly well preserved sculptures from 4-600BC- it really is incredible how well some of it has been preserved.
Adam exercised all of his mad dad skills after the official museum fun sponges said no running so controlled Eddie by an hour long shoulder ride through the museum with stops to copy the poses of the statues and count the horse games.
We finished this inside jaunt with a trip to the shop to reward Eddie for his patience with an Oydessey board game and van lunch then hit the archaeological site of Ancient Delphi itself. Thankfully the ancients enjoyed hillside spots so steps were very much a feature, and we zigzagging our way past the treasuries up to the temple to Apollo where the Oracle would inhale some fumes from a crack in the ground and yell a bit at some priests who would translate it into suitably vague predictions for the place to have a reputation for omnipotence.
We continued past the theater up to the Stadium as the highest point where unfortunately the amount of steps had not sufficiently worn out Eddie enough to stop a long game of ‘Is this how fast they used to run?’ Narrowly missing barrelling down several other tourists.
We then wandered down the road past the gymnasium to a temple to Athena then rewarded the boys with a playpark before dinner.
Even modern Delphi turned out to be in a beautiful setting- perched on a hillside with epic views over the Gulf of Corinth. We watched the sunset from a taverna in town before heading to a viewpoint on a hairpin bend for the night.
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