I don't even like travelling. I think it's stressful and I get over-stimulated and anxious and I'm scared there'll be racism or I'll get food poisoning or whatever. I experienced none of this in Greece.I did, however, see the Parthenon without scaffolding. I cried at the Dionysos theatre. Got lost on my way to the Agora, and then ran excitedly hand in hand with my friend squealing as we neared the Hephaistos Temple.I travelled with a group of other classics enthusiasts, my Ancient Greek professor being our academic guide. We visited the incredible site of Delphi, and my heart exploded. We saw a giant rainbow at Mycenae. I ran the whole lenght of the stadium at Olympia (and regretted it). Walked the 999 steps up to the fort at Nafplio. Visited the National Museum; how I sobbed while looking at the grave stelae!Our final day, we visited Cape Sounion and stood at the foot of the hill where the Poseidon Temple was bathing in sunlight, my professor reading out loud a poem by Hjalmar Gullberg - a poem written about that particular temple.I don't know if I like travelling now, or if I just love Greece. Coming home hit me hard, like an actual heartbreak. I cried for days, feeling a hole in my heart like I was yearning for a lost lover. Idk. Luckily, Greece isn't lost and I'm definitely coming back.It's so strange, realizing - it's all real. Having studied ancient literature, Ancient Greek, ancient philosophy and art history... And it's all real, not just textbooks and pictures. Idk man, Greece really changed me. My heart is so full.
>I don't even like travelling. I think it's stressful and I get over-stimulated and anxious and I'm scared there'll be racism or I'll get food poisoning or whatever. I experienced none of this in Greece.>I did, however, see the Parthenon without scaffolding. I cried at the Dionysos theatre. Got lost on my way to the Agora, and then ran excitedly hand in hand with my friend squealing as we neared the Hephaistos Temple.>I travelled with a group of other classics enthusiasts, my Ancient Greek professor being our academic guide. We visited the incredible site of Delphi, and my heart exploded. We saw a giant rainbow at Mycenae. I ran the whole lenght of the stadium at Olympia (and regretted it). Walked the 999 steps up to the fort at Nafplio. Visited the National Museum; how I sobbed while looking at the grave stelae!>Our final day, we visited Cape Sounion and stood at the foot of the hill where the Poseidon Temple was bathing in sunlight, my professor reading out loud a poem by Hjalmar Gullberg - a poem written about that particular temple.>I don't know if I like travelling now, or if I just love Greece. Coming home hit me hard, like an actual heartbreak. I cried for days, feeling a hole in my heart like I was yearning for a lost lover. Idk. Luckily, Greece isn't lost and I'm definitely coming back.>It's so strange, realizing - it's all real. Having studied ancient literature, Ancient Greek, ancient philosophy and art history... And it's all real, not just textbooks and pictures. Idk man, Greece really changed me. My heart is so full.
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>>2837197Yeah, how dare he enjoy things! He should have considered how you felt first!
>>2837196have you visited any of the studios located in Athens or Thesaloniki? Studios are part of greek culture as well
>squealingfag
>>2837196I felt this way when I visited Greece, anon. I spent years reading the classics and all that and it is crazy to see how real it is and how you can enter some small two-room museum on an archaelogical site and see stuff of the same or better quality that is in the great museums in the US, Germany, France, and England. My life went to shit immediately after but I'll always remember that trip.
>>2837196Why would you post a photo with a tamarisk? They're one of the ugliest fucking trees in existence.
You have the bronze age - antiquity sites, the old churches/shrines, mountain scale, the sea and the weather (after early April probably through this time of year), the people, the graveyards, the families, the almost anarchy but not anarchy especially on the roads, the Greek music, the taxi scammers. Big fan, big admirer. Might try to move there some day.
>>2837196You sound like you're very much into Greek love but I too enjoy seeing the places I've once read about, even if they're ultimately just a lone column with a stork nest atop.
AI slop from the tourism board. Anywho the Greece mainland is a shithole, rapidly depopulating and decaying. Only thing fascinating about it was looking out my window watching middle age cat ladies scurrying about feeding strays as the sun went down in what looked like bombed out streets full of garbage, graffiti and junkies . Crete was nice tho in the off-season
>>2837196Are you a woman?
>>2837196lol
>I'm scared there'll be racism Do you know where you are?
