Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

slide by on track to your

there,

the care in the world as you simply lean back.

And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travels should feel,

and on our trains it does.

Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Where did it all start? We know who's good at it, we know who cheated at it, we know who cheated at it, we know who's made a lot of money out of it, we even know who first fought at it.

But where did wrestling begin as a sport? Maybe its origins lie in Greek mythology.

Many Greek characters from history

have proven themselves to be adept at wrestling.

So let's follow this thread all the way up

to the top of the proverbial tree, all the way up to the

the heaven. Ladies and gentlemen, fighting out of Arcadia.

She is the Greek goddess of wrestling, Palestra.

There is indeed a Greek god or goddess for everything it seems so it's only right that we round out this series of wrestling curiosities with a deep dive into the life and times of

wrestling's deity. It all starts in the Greek utopia of Arcadia. This is where

God's, goddesses and other mythical and inhuman spirits would converge, share ideas, probably smite a wrong owner too.

On a normal day, in the wide open greens of Arcadia, you'd see the king of Arcadia and

his daughter Atalanta. Pan, the god of the wild, charging around on his hind quarters and the messenger for

Mount Olympus Hermes. You're now thinking, ah that's where the delivery company

gets his name from.

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