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Well, the palace is now a peaceful old ruin on a hill surrounded by olive groves overlooking Homer's "wine-dark" Ionian sea, Nestor's romantic bath is still there – if a bit grubby – and from the old stones you can just about see beyond the trees some buildings on the coast that future historians may well declare to be a 21st-century palace.
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Homer tells in the Iliad how he sent a fleet of ships to Troy to bring back the lovely Helen, and in the Odyssey how Nestor's youngest daughter, Polycaste, bathed Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, in his tub.
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It goes at least as far back as Nestor's speeches in "The Iliad," about the good old days when there were real heroes like Theseus rather than narcissistic jerks like Achilles.
A Master Back in the Saddle Lee Sandlin 2011
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A herd of large Brahmin cattle ambled across the road slowing Nestor's driving to a crawl.
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What tourist would know — as Ms. Ranelli did in San Sebastián — that every day at exactly 1 p.m. an astonishingly good onion and egg tortilla comes out to the counter of Bar Nestor, cooked by Nestor's wife, and that you have to line up by 12: 45 to acquire a slice?
A Big World of Little Plates Stan Sesser 2010
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A herd of large Brahmin cattle ambled across the road slowing Nestor's driving to a crawl.
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What tourist would know — as Ms. Ranelli did in San Sebastián — that every day at exactly 1 p.m. an astonishingly good onion and egg tortilla comes out to the counter of Bar Nestor, cooked by Nestor's wife, and that you have to line up by 12: 45 to acquire a slice?
A Big World of Little Plates Stan Sesser 2010
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What tourist would know — as Ms. Ranelli did in San Sebastián — that every day at exactly 1 p.m. an astonishingly good onion and egg tortilla comes out to the counter of Bar Nestor, cooked by Nestor's wife, and that you have to line up by 12: 45 to acquire a slice?
A Big World of Little Plates Stan Sesser 2010
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What tourist would know — as Ms. Ranelli did in San Sebastián — that every day at exactly 1 p.m. an astonishingly good onion and egg tortilla comes out to the counter of Bar Nestor, cooked by Nestor's wife, and that you have to line up by 12: 45 to acquire a slice?
A Big World of Little Plates Stan Sesser 2010
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Nestor's twenty words of English and my little Spanish allowed everything that he said to tickle my funny bone.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - iguanas fly at midnight 2007
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