nafplio for the weekend

I went to Nafplio this weekend.
Nafplio was the first capital of Greece until young King Otto decided to make Athens the capital. It has a well preserved old city center and 3 fortifications dating from different eras. There are Mycenaean ruins and 6000 years of continuous habitation in this part of the Peloponnese . So, similar to athens, it's hard to know which millennia the thing you're standing in front of belongs to.

I stayed in a really cheap pension above the old city. From here it was easy to walk over the hill to the beach behind the town. the water was clear, peaceful and lukewarm.

At the top of the old town is an abandoned fancy hotel. It looked weathered from afar, but at closer inspection, it had been destroyed by vandalism.. glass was broken, things seemed beaten up. I began to notice that all the light posts on top of the hill had all the glass broken out, and the spotlights that illuminate the fortifications at night were smashed up as well. It seems as though a lot of rage had been taken out on these inanimate objects. For the rest of my visit I was on the look-out for the perpetrators.