Heracles Labours

The Labour of the golden Apples of the Hesperides. Heracles is shown holding up the vault of heaven while Atlas walks towards him holding the apples that were kept at the world's end by the Hesperides

Corinth to Olympia

June 6th 2011
Friday 3rd June 2011 Up and off today to our final Greek sightseeing destination that of the ancient site of Olympia where the original Olympic games were founded. The first stage looked easy on the map, about 80 miles of motorway, and started as expected following signs for the A8 to Patras. However either we missed the turning ? ( I don't think so ) or this mostly imaginary motorway is st ... read more

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