![]() ![]() He has heard an intriguing story about two dead women at the ancient site of the Olympic Games. ![]() Those who died abroad knew the Roman port authorities would try to charge import duty on their ashes, especially if they came home in a luxury urn…Īulus, now a model student, has met an interesting man. Mountain scenery was panoramic but roads were rough, beds were hard (where they were available), fellow travellers were ghastly and the weather could only be relied upon to be foul. The Golden Age of tourism was the First Century AD, when the site guides – then as now – babbled incomprehensibly, the hotels were always under construction and when things went wrong, the travel companies did not want to know. ![]() The Greeks had a word for everything – and the Romans invented the rest. ![]()
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