After our stay in Crete and the sailing expedition around the Dalmation coast we spent a week in the Lake District of the UK. We then started our journey home by stopping in Athens for a couple of days. This allowed us to take an excursion to the ancient ruins of Mycenae which was a major civilisation around 1000years BC. It featured notably in the history/mythology as in the famous work by the historian Herodotus, and invokes the stories of the Trojan war, King Agamemnon and his Queen Clytemnestra, who is known within ancient Greek mythology for being the murderous wife of Agamemnon, the King of Mycenae, and sister of Helen of Troy.

The coach journey took us from Athens over the Gulf of Corinth then to the Ancient Theatre and Temple of Asciepius, in Epidaurus. We then lunched at the town of Nafplio which was after Greece’s independence, the first capital of Greece. Then we were driven to the ruins of the ancient city and palace of Mycenae where we were able to wander over the spectacularly positioned archeological site as well as the Tomb of Agamemnon, also known as the Treasury of Atreus. Hopefully the selection of photos conveys the enchanting and historic spirit of the location.