Olympia Youth Hostel
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Long trip to Greece
We arrived in Patras, Greece and made our way to Olympia, Greece were the Olympic games were furst started. No accomadation, but guide book lead use to a cheap youth hostel after the usual being lost and confuse. The direction and street signs are never straight forward. It is still low season, so we can just show up and still get cheap rooms. Nice …
The end of the letters?
Number 6 (27th August 2003 - 21st September 2003) Thought you may have needed a little more time to absorb the last instalment. This is the last of the Europe theses! (European answers to the confusing letters will follow). A couple more days in Sarajevo saw us wandering around the Turkish quarter after far too much coffee looking for the Serbian …
The cruise- an epic saga PART 1
... doing peace signs in front of all the major buildings and bridges, ugly wooden boardwalks put out for the flood and tacky tourist stands that popped up overnight the beauty of Venice was taken down a notch. We were happy to find, however, the gondolas were out at last! We saw several couples being paddled along the canals; one gondolier was on his cellphone chatting away loudly in Italian as the couple in his boat snuggled in front of him. As we were walking through the alleys ...
Mystra, Kalamata & Birthplace of the Olympic Games
... tired and thought we would never leave. He said if a wife is quiet then something wrong, I had to laugh. His final words to Troy were something like ‘don’t worry if she is loud, its good”..... ahhh he is my friend hahaha!
We went into another shop where I wanted a little tin of olive oil. This shop owner was funny too but our conversation was shorter. Troy and I got to try some free ouzo, holey mackerel its strong!!!!
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Today we visit the Olympic village
Today, we did not have an excursion planned. We decided to walk into the village. Jen talked to the lady at the tourist information booth. She said that if we wanted to go to Olympia, we should take the train. We bought tickets and then shopped a bit while waiting for the train. We boarded the train for the ride to the village of Olympia. It took about 35 minutes. Lots of olive trees along the way. We stopped in several villages. The ...
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