Cape Sounio is at the southernmost tip of a peninsula about 40 minutes south of Athens and it’s where we’ve spent the past few days of our trip. Its main site is the Temple of Poseidon, perched on a cliff and surrounded by the sea.

We’re staying at a resort during our time here, so our activities include breakfast, pool, beach, snack, pool, eat again, stroll around and then pass out from the food coma. The boys have worked out and went to play tennis, but Miss M and I have enjoyed catching up and relaxing.

Throughout the resort there are views of the Temple of Poseidon in the distance.

It’s been hot here so we don’t have much energy to do anything. Yesterday the staff brought around trays of watermelon slices poolside. Typically we eat our meals outside looking at the view of Poseidons Temple but yesterday morning it was muggy — which it hadn’t been all trip — so we opted for dining with AC.

The buffet has been unlike anything we’ve ever experienced and so far no two meals have been the same. On one night, for example, we counted:

At one station: 7 types of bread, three cheeses, two cured meats, 5 types of sushi, a bartender making two types of cocktails, more than a dozen dried fruits and nuts and seeds, and randomly a taco.

At the appetizer station: 12 different apps plus a dozen accoutrements including olives, hummus, tsatsiki, and other dips.

At the salad station: nine bowls of different salads plus seven bowls of individual vegetables, three types of dressings in shot glasses.

At another station: 11 entrees, spaghetti with red sauce or meat sauce, two types of pizza or calzone, and someone preparing a main whether it was gyros to order, slicing beef Wellington, or serving a whole fish baked in a salt cask.

On the dessert table: 17 items including melons, peaches, fruit bowls. Plus a crepe station and four types of ice cream.

All of the food has been delicious, all with a view of the Temple.