- K: How’s the birthday hangover?
- H: Little slower getting going but ready for Olympus. Better make sure we get the right bus. Not sure whether I told stelios to bring my white stuff order to Delphi or Olympus 🥴 Thanks for the card – meant to say yesterday but spending time with Pythagoras rather addled my brain (or was it the retsina!)
- K: think he’s already been, found this had been slipped under the door.
- Helen: 😯😆 damn. On the back he says he’s taken it back to athena sorting office. So job for tomorrow😁
- Kate B: what’s with these delivery men.. telling you one thing and then in the next breath compketely contradicting themsrkves.! 😆
- H: Good news. Stelios has come from athens to Delphi. Bad news think he brought the wrong parcel. Ordered size 6 jumper and trousers. Parcel contained size 14 trousers & size 14 jumper🙄
- K: with all that rich honey ladened food you’ve been eating the last 10 days I’m surprised they don’t fit! 😂
- H: 😆 how have today’s olives been?
- H: I think J has turned into the priestess pythia. Shes uttering strange gabbelings 😁
- K: 😂 😂 😂 She seems to think she’s Sisyphus for some reason, eternally rolling a rock up a hill! the ouzos really gone to her head.
Ano Anglianos – a brief stop here to visit a family tomb with 17 burials. So important a place that it cannot be found in any guidebook or encyclopedia and yet again J got waylaid, disoriented and lost in the tomb. Not only did she hold the bus up, but she totally missed it and we drove off without her!!
Olympia – has given its name to the greatest athletics event in the world, the Olympic games, birthplace 776bc, sadly postponed this year, but where the Olympic flame is lit every four years.
Open to all principal Greek cities, and celebrated for 5 days at the August full moon and, at a time when you didn’t have to enter a 72 hour on-line holding queue just to buy a morning ticket for a qualification round!
Theodosius II believed the games to be a pagan festival and closed them in AD 420. Following numerous earthquakes little remains of the temples and athletic facilities, but the remains do give a hint of the sanctuary’s former glory and are one of Greece’s most evocative ancient sites. Wandering amid the tree-shaded ruins, you can picture the blood and the sweaty, oiled-up athletes waiting inside the stadium, the crowds watching from a nearby hill. Calm down J! There are 3 main parts to visit; the sanctuary of Olympia, the archaeological museum, the history of Olympic Games museum.
- J: Darlings! Oh there you are, I thought I’d lost you. Would you credit it…I came here to see the sights but found myself on the starting line in some 200m Olympian race. Fortunately Zeus stopped it by wrestling me to the ground. Oh how I worship that man. Isn’t it wonderful to be the only tourists here.
- K: I see Js dumped zorba in favour of Zeus 😍 ♥ apollos not been on her back again has he..…?
- H: Yes. I think shes becoming one of his muses, In mythology, the Muses were nine goddesses who symbolized the arts and sciences. Today, a muse is a person who serves as an artist’s inspiration
- K: strange how meanings adapt over time.. but it would appear that the the lovely j fits both definitions. she can be my muse, full of inspiring inspiration 😊
- J: Carol could always double as one of Apollo`s muses…..but does she have any sandals. I wonder, as those shoes won`t set off her costume to advantage.
- H: View from hotel. Reminds me of the one in Armenia. The one where carol slammed the doors 😆
- K: the window less room, door thingy..
- K: I’m not sure our chums at home are appreciating our holiday.. 😆 all locked up with nowhere to go.. 😆
- H: I think they’ve got other things on their minds, VE Day holiday on Friday and they’re getting the bunting ready.
- K: Blije whats all that din!!
- H: Sounds like crockery breaking, J, where are you
- J: OO sorry I’m here, just been evicted from Aphrodites pitta bar, got a bit enthusiastic and have been joining in the national culture, smashing plates against a distant wall. How was I to know it was no longer customary. 😖
Zorbas Explorers in the Peloponissos 