anticipation
I'm sorry that my blog entries are currently sparse. Somehow I just do not have the energy and motivation, every day more or less full report in writing to. Maybe has to do what with the fact that I fly home in 9 days. And I'm looking forward to crazy. Therefore, only the half Vollstänigkeit: from Kythira (where we spent another day) we went to Kaglio on the east side of the Mani peninsula in the Peloponnese (which is the "middle finger" if you will). Cute little village. It's amazing how different the villages look here than on the islands of the Aegean. Stone houses instead of whitewashed cubes but usually very green and steep mountain slopes around it. Looking out a bit like in France, I think, and makes a somewhat milder than the impression but sometimes quite steep and barren islands. From
Kaglio it was on to Gerolimin, another Mani village. The village is quite influenced by tourism and consist mainly of taverns and boarding houses and a small beach, but there is a mass rush it. No wonder, by land, it is already quite a driving, until you arrive down here.
we are now in Methoni, a Venetian port town in the far southwest of the Peloponnese. I must say that to me before this trip was not clear how big the Venetian empire in the early modern times. I mean, it was already clear to me that Venice was rich and influential, but I was introduced to me as more a thriving commercial city and good diplomatic relations by marriage and such a thing. have from the sheer military power, which embodies the Venetians in the Aegean and Ionian Sea, I had no idea. We have been on a little island and hardly a place on the mainland, where there was not a Venetian castle. And these are fortifications that have washed up.
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