Tuesday April 20, 2010: Day one of our coach tour, Corinth Canal and Mycenae.

We started a coach tour across the Peloponnese and into Northern Greece. The first day we drove south out of Athens towards the Peloponnese, and crossed the Corinth Canal. Driving across it was stressful enough, but we enhanced the bum-clenching experience by walking back across an open-grid metal pedestrian bridge to take a photo of the canal. It is about 60 metres straight down (it feels like about 800m) but only about 20m wide. It is absolutely horrifying to stare straight down into it!

The Coach tour was very good because our bus was nowhere near full due to so many cancellations (volcano). Of the 16 people aboard, we were nearly all from Canada...half anglophones and half francophones. This smaller group gave us more time with our guide, made for more comfortable bus rides, and gave us a chance to meet all the other travellers.