Rock On, Greece

I arrived yesterday in Greece. a county I have never visited before. We had transportation arranged to take us to our hotel, and to be perfectly honest I was planning on napping during the 40 minute ride.   I was, after all,  pretty tired from our 15 hours of travel, and  usually the ride from the airport into any city is not the most scenic.

Our driver was incredibly friendly, and clearly proud of Athens.  As soon as we drove out of the airport he started to share interesting facts about Greece.  The one I really remembered is that 80% of Greece is mountainous.  

Driving into Athens you certainly see signs of this.  Athens is bordered by three different mountain ranges, and has 7 hills, which are really small mountains.    In looking on the web for information about the mountains in Greece I came across a very interesting legend, courtesy of the website Random Facts. 

Legend has it that "when God created the world, he sifted all of the soil onto the earth through a strainer.  After every country had good soil, he tossed the stones left in the strainer over his shoulder and created Greece."  I find this legend somewhat hard to believe, because those "stones" are some of the most beautiful marble in the world, which was used to build most of ancient Greece.  

While God may have sifted the soil onto the earth, like the archeologists all over Athens, he may have been looking for the most valuable bits of the soil, which he saved to form Greece.  Something this beautiful must have been intentional.