The Corinth Canal

Our next stop was in the much more modern city of Corinth. The area where we parked was full of souvenir and snack shops. Traffic zoomed all around us as we walked up the road to look at one of the great engineering feats of the late 19th Century. The Corinth Canal connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea.

Day Twelve (Wednesday)

July 5th 2006
This was about to be a very, very busy day. We were up rather early in order to leave on the bus at 8:00. Our breakfast wasn't as filling as our previous few in Greece. This morning it was back to cold cereal, a couple croissants and watery orange juice. Our first order of business was to drive back up the isolated Tolo road into the larger city of Nafplion. Even though Tolo is the seaside ... read more

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Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In Worl... ... read more

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