You Have 20 Minutes

If I could describe our first day on a four day bus tour of Greece I would say, "You have 20 minutes." After getting stuck in a traffic jam leaving Athens our tour guide shortened every experience of the day. (Truck drivers in Greece are on strike and they are blocking a major road and parking their trucks along other major thoroughfares.)

Our first stop was the Corinth Canal. What a spectacular place. We had 20 minutes to see it.

When we arrived at the Theatre of Epidaurous our guide told us we had 20 minutes. Impossible to experience this magnificent theatre and get all the right pictures in that short of a time. Luckily we were not the last people back on the bus.

We saw the Tomb of Agememnon and Mycenae. She said, "You can probably run to the top and make it back in 20 minutes." I don't run. I don't even walk very fast. Luckily, I was not the last person back to the bus.

We arrived at our hotel last night at 8 p.m. and were told we had 20 minutes until dinner.