Peloponnese

First day arrival to Athens airport and stayed in a country house near the airport. After putting the bicycle together did a short exploratory ride from The Varaba Country house, where I'll stay for the night, to Porto Proti and back.

Day 02. Glyfada to Loutraki Today the distance to pedal is 64.3 miles and 6,340 ft of elevation gain Today's route is: The Aegean Sea features prominently in many of the most famous Greek myths (Icarus and Daedelus, Theseus and the Minotaur, Jason and the Argonauts, The  Odyssey , among others) and Plato made ample use of the islands in his dialogues.  Aegean Seaview is the name of The Hotel in Loutraki. A myth tells where the Aegean sea got it's name from. The story below was "borrowed" from: http://greekerthanthegreeks.blogspot.com/2017/10/how-aegean-sea-of-greece-got-its-name.html How the Aegean Sea of Greece Got its Name: A Wonderful but Sad Greek Myth The Aegean Sea View from Mykonos Photo: Dimitris Tamposis If you look hard enough, there’s a story behind everything, especially when it relates to all things Greek.   The ancient Greeks were admirable story-tellers.  Take   Aesop , who understood, that in order for chil

Day 01. Athens - Sounio - Glyfada Arrival around 9:30am to Athens International airport. Stay at a nearby Country house hotel, and the next day and first of the bicycling journey pedal to Glyfada via Sounio 50 miles with 3,889 ft of elevation gain. The map for this day's route is: Sounion  (Σούνιον; modern Greek: Σούνιο) is the southernmost point of Attica to the east, about 40 miles from Athens. Because it commanded the seafaring lanes to and from Athens it was was fortified to guard the maritime interests of the Athenians. A strong garrison of Athenians hoplites and triremes was stationed at the promontory and guarded the all-important food supplies from Eubea and Pontos, as well as the nearby  silver mines of Lavrion . Today, it is an archaeological site crowned by the elegant Doric  Temple of Poseidon . Homeric Hymn 22  To Poseidon I begin to sing about Poseidon, the great god, mover of the earth and fruitless sea, god of the deep who is also lord