An Epiphany birthday

Leon made me a beautiful birthday card ...

... we climbed Palomides fortress. From there we could see Nafplio and across the Gulf of Argos. In the other direction – the fabled Argolid. It was the day of a religious festival – Epiphany – and from Palomides we saw crowds gather below. We had been woken that morning by church bells. The Nativity display was in the square.

Nafplio and the gulf of Argos from the fortress of Palomides

After our exhausting climb we drove to Tiryns. It was a beautiful day but nobody else was there.

We picnicked in the middle of the megaron. Sunny – I sat and read while Leon stumbled around – found himself in a forbidden area and decided not to lose himself in a dark hole.

Homer called it 'great-walled Tiryns'

Lyn in Tiryns' corbelled galleries

The rusting cars of a railway used in the excavation of the site

Lyn in the megaron (throne room) of the bronze age rulers of Tiryns

When I came back I found Lyn dozing like a lizard in the sun.