Delphi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is our morning’s destination. It’s a scenic drive from the port of Itea to Delphi, with grand vistas overlooking olive orchards of staggering size, surrounding snow-spotted mountains and the Ionian Sea. Once on site, we walked back into deep time, thousands of years into the past to join the Greek gods.
Some of us chose to visit an olive grove instead of Delphi. Once we learned about the process of turning olives into oil, we had the pleasure of sampling a variety of olive oils along with other tasty local snacks.
Back on board for the afternoon, we headed out to sea. Historian David Brotherson presented, “Thunder, Gods and Underdogs: the Greco-Persian wars.” Later, National Geographic Photographer MacDuff Everson shared, “How I Became a National Geographic Photographer.”
The Corinth Canal was the icing on our Mediterranean voyage cake. We transited the canal after dinner.
