(written 11/4/06 13:30 Greek time, in Náfplio, Greece)
I was up very early to watch the sunrise, which proved to be a great spectacle over the mountains.
Paying for the night's accommodation proved to be just as time wasting as trying to get into the place the night before, as the guy on the desk couldn't work the card machine and the guy on the bar decided he wanted to sell the locals 1euro coffees rather than take our 55euros for the night's accommodation. Still, we eventually sorted it and decided not to give them the added satisfaction of making us a coffee, so we set off to explore the town and find coffee elsewhere.
The cute little town with steep windy streets was good to explore, with plenty of old buildings, squares, monuments and places to get lost. We made it to the top where there was of course the castle, but it was yet to open. Having set off so early there were no bus-loads of tourists here yet, so we enjoyed the empty streets with only locals for company.
Along Calle de Don Blasco, lined with Roman columns, we found a little quiet café where we grabbed the required morning coffee, before deciding to move on after grabbing a few last Valencia oranges from a little shop.
Still keen to make some distance over parts of the world we had seen before, we pushed on hard through changing gorgeous countryside past huge rivers and through small towns along mostly small roads towards and finally into Andorra.