Olympia Museum

Today we visited the site of Ancient Olympia where the Olympic flame is ignited every 4 years and that flame is shared the world all over till it reaches the place and stadion where the Olympic Games are held and opened.

The ancient site is quite large and has a temple for Zeus (Dias named in Greek) and one for his wife Hera, just behind his temple. And there are more remains from ancient times plus that very first track of some 200 meters for running athletes.

Next to these ancient and holy places is a museum with worldknown art and we visited that too. My son frequents his patrida often, but always as a hiking guide, that is wondering across the mule paths in nature... never visiting these sites with history and ancient heritige ~ so he's impressed with what he's seen today and we're both pleased he got this other touch from Greece now too.

The day we started with a swim in the sea in front of the hotel and by midday we were the 40 kms further on at Olympia for our visit there. There were many more tourists amongst whom some groups of schoolchildren and we met a group of them from a gymnasium, Dutch schooltype with classical subjects, in Den Bosch in Holland ~ their schoolyear started a month ago and now they're in 5th grade + making this classical tour with school! Next year 6th grade with their final exams... and then uni..

Apart from teenagers from schools, there were many peers of mine, travelling by coaches or by cars themselves, like I do. We took a meal in a taverna in the village, actually opposite the entrance of the site and to our surprise all the coaches left Olympia village instantly with their pack of tourists without offering them time to eat and drink in the village of Olympia and for the taverna owners I think it quite bitter that they see so many people pass by without having them as a client at theirs! 

I forgot, thunder roared in the sky when we were about to leave the Olympia site with the temples and remains of the colons and as soon as we sat down in the taverna the clouds opened up and a shower of rain was there, lowering the temps instantly.