Winery and Mycenae!

Yet again we left another hotel this time it was Delphi. Felt like a rockstar touring around with all the moving we were doing. The trip was so jam packed that we didn’t get much sleep. I can’t complain since we were in Greece at the moment. After breakfast we got on the bus to head to Nemea and learned about wine and how it was made. It shocked me how long it takes to make a fine and one of a kind wine. Shortly after we went to Mycenae and saw the Cyclopean walls and how large of a caliber it was built. Then hiked the mountain to see where the fresh water flowed. Then it started to rain on the way up which is strange for Greece but added to the scenery in a mysterious way. Maybe Zeus was angry we were there.

Christopher Hernandez

Another day that I spent sleeping and During the tour at the winery, we finally heard from an expert about the causes of the economic crisis from the woman who gave us the tour at the winery. Since she is an economist, she gave us a presentation on the spot about when it started, and she was the first person to blame Greece for it. She told us the government was not prepared to join the European Union, but they still did it anyways without thinking about inflation and the economic impacts. We hiked the archaeological site of Mycenae while listened to the expert archaeologist who was with us throughout these days. Seeing these archaeological sites in person made me actually think about the myths behind how they were actually built. I kind of started believing that Tyrins employed Cyclopes to build the walls of Mycenae with giant stones that no human could move. But in fact I know that a lot of labor went into building these structures. Visiting these sites really made me admire Greek architecture.

Juan Breton