Testament to what we have been saying about the Greek buses (especially in the Peloponnese) there were five tourists, including us, waiting for the only bus back to Nafplio that we had all been assured would arrive at 15:30. The Nafplio bus station attendant told us it would be there, a sign at the site posted the bus schedule (albeit the 'summer hours'), and the bus driver himself pointed to the spot when he had dropped us off just a few hours before. The five of us stood around getting to know each other and by the end of it, we had gotten an hour closer to each other, been told the bus had already left (despite the other couple standing there since before 15:00…turns out it actually picks us up a kilometer away from the entrance), begged the locked ticket office attendant to call us an awesome Mercedes-Benz taxi that roared into the otherwise deserted archaeological site and sped us back the 26 km. to Nafplio. A great experience with quite a mix of people: American, South Korean, a couple from Spain and Singapore (via India) who had also not gotten a bus ride back from the Mycenae site the day before, and a quirky researcher from Germany full of random facts. And of course our local Greek driver, who we asked to snap this shot.
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