We arrived here yesterday after the short drive from Koroni. The water is blue-green and clear – it’s too cool for swimming but we imagine that it’s very busy in the summer. In the photo below, you can see how the town is clustered around the water.
A View of Pylos
It’s popular with sailors. We met a man last night who just sailed in from Sicily – he lives on his boat and travels all over the world!
Like most other Greek towns we’ve visited, the flowers are beautiful and well loved.
Geraniums by the Sea
Pylos is described by Homer in both the Iliad and the Odyssey (Book 17) when Telemachus says: ”we went to Pylos and to Nestor…and he received me in his lofty house and gave me a kindly welcome…” He’s describing his trip to Nestor’s Palace.
Today we drove 30 minutes to the Archeological site of the Palace. It doesn’t look like this now but it must have been spectacular in its day.
Depiction of Nestor’s Palace
Today, it looks like this:
Nestor’s Palace Today -The Bathroom!
Many important archaeological remains have been found here including thousands of clay tablets with inscriptions written in Linear B. It is a really interesting site in a beautiful setting.
There are lots of blooming olive and fruit trees here – we were surprised that this is the bloom of a lime tree!
Lime
There is a Castle in Pylos – right above our hotel. Tomorrow we’ll make the trek to the top. We’ll be here a couple more days before we go to our last stop on our mini Greek Odyssey…Athens!
