Corinth

Thursday morning we took a train to Corinth. From the center we took two buses to old Corinth where we saw some ruins and an attached museum. Corinth is where Paul wrote letters as he tried to “spread the word of god.” The Temple of Apollo had only a few columns standing, but the rest of the ruins were great. They weren’t ruins of temples or extremely important buildings. Instead, Corinth was basically a town of ruins. We could see where the main street had been and where shops were. There had been a bunch of churches and a synagogue, all constructed at various times and all in various states of ruin. From the ruins (a site called Ancient Corinth) we could actually see the sea and the mountains across an inlet. The museum wasn’t anything spectacular. Many of the artifacts had actually been stolen a few years back. They were recovered, in Miami, and returned, but not everything is on display. We could also peek into a room just off the museum where a man was restoring a vase. We couldn’t watch for too long, but it was interesting to see him work. It completed our visit. We mailed some postcards and caught our buses back to the train station from where we took two trains and a subway to get back to our hostel. The trains were comfortable, but they really need to run more cars. Many people from Athens take day trips out towards Peloponnese because of the beaches. We got seats because we got on at the train’s second stop. There were only two cars, and most people had to stand (for an hour) on the very crowded train.