We had trouble with our Internet yesterday, but somehow managed to get on this morning, so here’s a quick update. We drove through the amazing mountains of Arcadia yesterday, a place of myth and legend, a drive we’d been dreading. It turned out to be lovely and well-marked. We explored a 13th century castle perched above a hillside hugging village of Kretena; Will loved imagining he was being a Knight, shouting “clang, clang, clang” as he ran through the deserted ruins. (No tour buses here). Somewhat to our dismay, he was imagining torching the castle, not defending it. We lunched in a tiny, one-lane village, the only other customers a Greek family drinking ouzo and Coke. The few trucks that came through town nearly hit the shops on both side of the road; the view was amazing. After we left that town, Andritsena, we drove through miles and miles of burned olive groves and pine forests, the devastating results of last summer’s fires, which almost burned the ancient Olympic grounds. It was rather heartbreaking to see all that destruction, though the grass was growing and wildflowers everywhere. Most homes seem to have been saved in these isolated mountains. We got to the site of Ancient Olympia mid-afternoon and were able to walk through the ruins — amazing, the biggest we’ve seen. Will ran through the keystone arch onto the Olympic stadium grounds and ran up and down the famous stadium where athletes competed from as far back as 10th century B.C. until the 4th century A.D. The ruins were extensive, with all the administrative buildings and gymnasia and baths, not to mention the huge temples to Hera and Zeus. We saw where they will light the Olympic Flame for the 2008 Beijing Olympics — tomorrow! It’s Rick’s one great failure in travel planning, missing the flame by a day. We’d noticed the town teeming with Chinese, and Chinese TV journalists, and this is the reason. But we’ll watch it on TV with the rest of you. It’s stormy today; we’re going to visit the museum here this morning and then drive to Delphi. Then off to Crete tomorrow! We’ll try to post another slideshow when we have better Internet access, perhaps in Crete.