Visiting the reconstructed Nereid Monument — featuring ruins from Xanthos, Turkey — at London’s British Museum. (Photos: Liz Chapin)
Ruins of the 4th century BC tomb in Xanthos, which The Idiot visited while MedTrekking on southern Turkey’s Lycian Way in May, were brought to the British Museum in the 1840s.
The Idiot, who will resume the MedTrek in southern Turkey on Sept. 17, points to Xanthos on a map in the British Museum.
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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