Olympia - site of the ancient games

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Location: Katakolon and Olympia
Weather: Sunny, 34 °C

I have a true appreciation of how students feel about listening and work when it is hot! Today I travelled to Olympia - site of the original Olympic games but while the guide was explaining things all I was trying to do was find some shade. It was a bit like the episode of the Simpsons told from the dog’s perspective, every time the humans spoke the dog heard random sounds - I was listening but not listening. The Museum at Olympia was good, the air conditioning made it so. Some of the artefacts collected from the Olympia site were very beautiful. The funniest statute was from the Roman period - often Roman statues have separate heads - this is because the Emperor could change so frequently that there was not enough time to create the statue so they got into the habit of only creating the head and replacing it when there was a change in leadership.

Amy

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Photos

Partially restored monument
This temple was given as a gift to Olympia.

Temple of Zeus
This is where the celebrations began once the games where over.

Site of the Olympic Flame
It is here that the flame for the modern Olympics is lit through the use of a large mirror and the sun.

Olympia competition field
You have to appreciate that I went in here and took the photo as it was about a million degrees in the sun. Yes I got sunburnt cos the guide wanted to have a long talk here on the field!