Mickey: I'd like to send this to virmax e2 energy From the farming village of Kato Meria a path leads steeply down to the site of ancient Karthea – 90 minutes down, two sweaty hours back up. Fragments of column on a promontory between two empty beaches are all that remain standing of this powerful city state, a sacred site to rival Delos and Aegina. “A narrow ridge of land, but I would not swap it for Babylon,” wrote the lyric poet Pindar. Once the home of 1,500 people, it has been empty for a thousand years and remains that way.