Pt2 - 13: ON THE MAINLAND Mycenae is famous as the seat of Agamemnon, the aggrieved king who led his troops on a ten year siege of Troy to avenge the kidnapping of his wife Helen by the Trojan warrior Paris, and we all know how that turned out. This morning Mycenae was under its own siege by busloads of chattering schoolchildren. I’ve decided when I get home I’ll invent a spray for this. We hacked our way through the hordes up to the Lion’s Gate which offered a spectacular view across the Peloponnesian Plains. It was a peerless day to be at any sort of altitude but, alas, the infestation of school kids and the growing invasion of German tourists destroyed any enjoyment of the moment. With the drive to Olympia on the western coast ahead of us we cut our losses and returned to the car. There were a hundred tour buses choking the carpark, and I’m not making that up! It took us longer to negotiate our way out to the road than we’d actually spent up at the site. The next few hours we...
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