15:05
Location: Myloi (Mili), 10 km from Argos.

A collection of rusting steam engines sit on a side track in the fragmented light of the sun through the trees. They have probably been there for 20 years, certainly 10--grass grows on some--but they wait patiently as our more modern train moves by, like cows put out to pasture.

The hills are drier and more barren here, rather like the hills in northern Morocco. The pink flowering trees are gone, but blood-red poppies have joined the white, yellow and purple alongside the track.
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