Club Olympus

Mt Olympus is a club ski field outside of Christchurch NZ. Cathie, Gus, Sam & I spend a week with Morty and her gang of local mountain men and women pretending we can ski and proving we can drink. Even though we've started to lose to them in Rugby, Kiwi's ...

... ; I was uninjured ; my left knee, that had been operated on 5 weeks previously, felt fine. No problems, except that my camera - favourite little Olympus XA2 - was in my trouser pocket when I fell. It was soaked. I put it in sun to dry, while I washed my ...

We just got finished spending 4 glorious days in Olympus. It's an ancient town turned adult camp. It's filled with camp after camp that has tree houses and wood bungalows. The camps are in the woods cradled between some impressive peaks. Basically our ...

... though. With the help of the hostel staff and help of locals along the way though we finally managed to find it. Unlike other club fields Mt Olympus is not on maps, and there is no sign for it from the main highway. After heading down several dirt roads, ...

... on the other hand had washed the clothes, got up to date on blogging and had relaxed swimming in the lagoon and sitting in the shade, excellent. In the morning we set off for Olympus, where our accommodation sees us in tree houses. Onwards and Eastwards! ...

... an underwater camera to my ever growing collection so we poped into the duty free shop for a browse. As it turned out there was a nice Olympus 8010 that only cost $350 so we decided to join forces and buy it. It's water proof to 10m, shock proof to 2m, ...

... town. One of our group even managed to land on a German tourist (good show!)!! Photos of me below! We are going off to Olympus next where I get another bed in a hostel – very very excited about not being in a hot house that is my tent!!! (And ...

... very similar problem to my last Olympus that i bought in India. I think after i bought this one, i justified my purchase of a second Olympus by saying something like ‶what are the chances of it happening to two Olympus's in a row?″ Well now i ...

... and long winded rant.  They say every picture is worth a thousand words, and indeed the photographic memories that the Olympus fe-3010, digital camera has provided me are really priceless. For when one considers what a photo really is, they ...

... and sat on the beach and had a cocktail with a sparkler in. Cost a fortune. No doubt last one for a while. Whilst driving to Olympus we were overtaken by a camera team who then proceeded to film the bus with all of us waving out of the windows. No ...

... us with a sense of how life must have been two thousand years ago. That night after dark we climbed the mountain of Olympus where flames erupt from crevices in the rock. They’ve been burning for several thousand years. A very spiritual and ...

... at Simena a fishing village with access only by boat. Then to see the pirates cave and disembark at Demere..... some went on to Olympus from here...but we left them and found a bus back to Fethiye. For the four days we just lived i our swimmers ...

... there but to Monkey beach to the east and moored the long boat off the beach. We readied ourselves and in we jumped I took the Olympus 850SW as it was meant to be water proof. Nancy had been using one I was not that confident in its ability to handle ...

... marble steps lead up to a landing with grey granite columns. The 18th-century ceiling painting by Gasparo Diziani depicting Mount Olympus looking down on a room trimmed with gleaming gold and mirrors. The staircase is adorned with statues, some of which ...

... walked away. So then Stephen hands me my camera. Yep. Turns out the guy had in fact stolen from me!!! He took my brand new Olympus camera!!!!! Stephen told me that he asked the guy what he'd taken from me; he said that he felt I wouldn't accuse someone ...

... past us on the way up, and enjoyed the 360 degree views to Mt Ossa (Tasmania's highest, to the north), Mt Hugel, Mt Olympus, Lake St Clair, Lake King William and the King William Range, the Franklin River, Frenchman's Cap and Eldon Peak (topped with rain ...

... air currents. In 1926 Aldous Huxley noted "From the bastions of the Jodhpur Fort one hears as the gods must hear from Olympus – each separate word uttered in the innumerable peopled world below." These little lanes around the fort don’t wake ...

... . I only checked in 90 minutes ago but have already spent $800, $499 of which is a result of my new camera purchase - an Olympus Stylus 810. It's about half the size of my old digital and will comfortably fit in a shirt pocket. Invested another $89 in a 1 ...

... So I managed to successfully negotiate the subway, and the local metro bus to get a long way across town to the WTC where Olympus was located. Even managed to ask a load of directions in Spanish and was fully understood, which was nice. Found the place ...