Great to know James found the conference interesting but sorry to hear about your missed opportunity Scott. Also good to know some fun things are coming up on the program. I have no idea about the comment times Alexander, I'm just as confused as you are, but I suggest you write the time at the end of a comment. Jonathan received Gibbo's e-mail about HP7 and thought about replying with some (un)helpful suggestions. Still reckon I should be Charlie Weasley or various Weasleys on a dragon-catching expedition across Europe.
Hired a small-ish car on Tuesday and managed to fit everything into the boot (just!). Figured out or reduced tour of the Peloponnese and set out for a place near Olympus to stay.
Wednesday (today) drove to Olympus (Olympic site, not mountain). Some amazing ruins there. Need to show you all the photos when I get back. Interesting fact: just before the athlete's entrance to the main stadium there are a row of statues of Zeus, though only the pedestals are left. An info sign told us that any athlete found guilty of cheating would have to pay a fine which funded the construction of one of the statues to be displayed as a warning to other athletes. Visited The Museum of the History of the Olympic Games, which had various statues and artifacts to do with the Ancient Olympic games. Several 'helpful' signs present, including one saying that to enter the games an Athlete had to be "born free of parents" (I suspect it meand born of free parents).
We are currently staying in a hotel in Napfia, a lovely seaside town with a Byzantine (post Roman, pre Middle Ages) castle overlooking it. The castle, which is on a hill near the back of the town if you are looking from the sea, is lit up with floodlights at nigh giving a pretty spectacular view.
Its 9:35pm an I've just been told I need to go to bed, so will post again at the next opportunity.
We'll make you Charlie Weasley, but it is a shame you're not going to Romania. Still, there are dragons in England, so you could be on a foreign expedition or something.
ReplyDeleteScavenger hunt to Macca's tomorrow, but you're missing out :(, have you seen a greek Macca's, and make sure you look out for other forweign Mcdonald's while your in europe. There are some in Germany, Switzerland, and obviously France.
Thursday 4:49pm
Hi Alexander,
ReplyDeleteGood to know that I can be Charlie and that my absence is excusable. Thought a bit more and decided that, if they don't have a past already, Ben and Daniel should be Crabbe and Goyle.
We have seen only one Maccas so far, which was in Athens, but we will definitely find more in other countries. This is our second last day in Greece and we still have a few things on our agenda, so we nit get to all of them. We are off to investigate some Byzantine ruins soon.
Thursday 8:58am
Hi ranga.
ReplyDeleteDid Gemma honestly vomit 3x?
Take more photos!!!( or attempt to post some online)
If you do we might post alexander and myselfs very interesting Christmas card, (cue evil laughter)
Faiz has changed schools :(
Australias doing alright in the cricket.
English names of black white pokemon starters have been released, THEY SUCK!!!
Tepig ( tepid and pig), snivy (snake and ivy ) and
OSHaWOTT ( WTF and ???????!)
Speaking of pokemon , manraj got src again( funny how wordfinder changed that src to sex), but I think you knew that.
The lack of rangas in our group at school is starting to become
Quite lonely.
Today I told Minh that gullible wasn't in the dictionary, he looked.
Keep on enjoying Europe.
Tom