Epidaurus in the morning. Picnic lunch at church near Franchthi Cave, small church, few benches outside, very nice view of the bay. Bread, cheese, egg, tomato, peach, great lunch. 20-25 min trek to cave along coast. Quite spectacular, esp the gorge after a little rock-climbing to get to it. Swim, water’s gorgeous, busted right toe on urchin. Magnet for them. Picking up shells and dried urchins with N on walk back from cave. It rained! Started at sanctuary of Asclepius, fairly heavy when we were on our way back to the hotel. Saga of Oresteia. Last minute jitters abt whether the weather would hold but we eventually set off (Al, As, T, S, Tr, B, Ai, Iv, C). Supposed to start at 10, couldn’t get to seats till abt 15 past. Finally at 10:40 pm, announcement that heavy rain had short-circuited 80% of the wiring and we would get the concertante version. Made no sense, music sounded atonal, this guy was doing all the parts from falsetto to bass and back. From the program, saw photos of funkily dressed actors, most interesting was drawing of Clytemnestra, breasts bared, squirting blood? from her nipples. Al got the refund for us. Got back to Nauplion at 12:40 pm. Had fish soup, went back, collapsed on bed.
Finished The Dead Zone (T’s). Fairly entertaining, overall disappointing.