Tom got off work so we were able to add several sites to add to our adventures this weekend. The first interesting thing was crossing the Isthmus of Corinth. We have driven over it before but it goes by in a blink from the toll way. We exited the tollway to drive down the east coast of the Pelopones and were able to get out of the car and see the bridge in action. The bridge is actually submersable, lowered by huge hydrolic motors to a depth is 8 meters.

The boys!

The canal was completed in 1893 after several failed attemps including one by Nero in the first century. It is 6.3 kilometers long and connects the Saronic Gulf and Aegean Sea. Between the first and ninetenth centuries a Diolkos or portage road was used to haul boats and goods across the isthmus.