Aldemar Royal Olympian Spa & Thalasso

... we only got a little bit wet while cycling. The campsite that was supposed to be closed let us in. The man running the campground invited us to have coffee with him. We&#8217;re right on the sea again and got to see a beautiful sunset. We&#8217;ve been invited to help ourselves to the mandarin trees. The lightening is giving us a show playing over the sea while darkness descends. We&#8217;re even dry - for now...<br>

The sun shone down on us lightening spirits and reassuring me that we CAN get through this and continue on (or at least reassuring ME). I must not get so devastated from only rain. I guess it&#8217;s just one of the signs that we are both starting to get a bit tired. <br><br>But today was to be a fun sight-seeing day. Seeing the remains of the temple of Zeus, the temple of Hera, and the ...

... around, Brian drempt that he was washed down the cliff and carried under the waves&#8230;<br><br>The morning was not much better. The rain lightened enough for us to pack up, nicely waiting to downpour until we started cycling. And did it ever! Reminiscent of days gone by, I began to wonder &#8216;why?&#8217;. Why are we doing this? Why do we keep putting ourselves through this? We&#8217 ...

... participate or observe. Oh yeah. All athletes competed naked. Which leads me to my next point. "Gymna" is the Greek word for "nude", so the English word "gymnasium" comes from Greece, meaning a place for nude workouts, basically. Interesting! <br><br>Also, after a woman DARED to sneak in impersonating a man to see her 2 sons compete and who was revealed as a woman, even the judges had to be naked to make sure no funny stuff was going on. Curious. <br><br>We ...

... discus, javelin, long jump and running and of course this was all done naked. These games were played for at least a thousand years and it wasn&#8217;t until 394 AD that they were banned. The modern Olympics started again in 1896. To this day they still light the Olympic flame at Olympia the same place and same way they did way back when. We spent about 2 hours walking around the site and wandering around the museum. There was a lot to see like the Temple ...

... for Calvin was running into the stadium and doing a full lap. The weather was not great (raining) but that meant we had the entire stadium to ourselves to do a victory lap. The Zeus temple ruins were spectacular as well. You really got an appreciation for how huge the columns are when you stand right ...

In August and September of 2007, hundreds of thousands of acres pf Greek forests burned, hundreds of people were left homeless, and scores of people died. The fires were caused by a combination of global warming, two years of drought, a higher-than-normal jet stream across Europe, accident, and arson. Arsonists burn down the forests in the hopes of bribing ...

... on Earth may be followed by another life on Earth, a life on Pluto, or something different. But, it will have an end. And all these lives of ours will circle around themselves throughout time, and we will be on Earth again. SO, DO OUR LIVES HAVE MEANING? That's an easy question. We must first ask: do other people have souls? Do they think and feel? If they didn't have souls, or if we refuse to care about them, then our lives would be meaning-less. Everything we ...

... owner and outlined my plans to reach the tip of the peninsula. He gave me some useful information. The east side is wild - both the people and the terrain. The west coast is pretty. Also there is a celebration to mark the blocking of the passage of the Italians during the second world war on the 28th of October. After much messing around I continued down the east ...

... of Doric columns. The temple of Zeus would have been huge with two rows of columns. Of course, the famous statue of him would have been kept there. All of the columns fell over in a huge earthquake in the 5th century B.C., but one has been put back together to give you a feel for how big it all was. The stadium was cool. As I said earlier, there were no seats, spectators just sat on the grass. There were two starting blocks, one on each side of the stadium so that all ...