Athens – Healing Water of Sounio

I’m not sure how healing this water is, but apparently there are minerally rich thermal springs around here and it was also a rather impressive viewpoint. We didn’t know that they were healing waters at the time, otherwise perhaps we might have had a little paddle.

NB, the use of the word minerally is apparently a modern concept, although has now reached the OED and so is acceptable. I didn’t know it wasn’t a word until spell check queried it. Here’s an Ngram graph of how the word has been used over the last 200 years and I accept that I probably should have just written mineral rich…. Anyway, I’ve digressed.

Decent views.

A hole which Richard refused to investigate. In many ways, I was quite pleased with that as I have no idea how I would have helped him back out without the support of the Greek coastguard.

I was worried that there might be snakes in there, so I didn’t rush in. This is when you need Liam as he would have jumped down there.

There’s likely a whole caving complex down there.

And Richard jogging back up to the car.

We were on the road from Athens to the Temple of Poseidon and it is a beautiful drive.