Meteora

Meteora is a beautiful mountain region in northern Greece. There are monasteries perched on isolated rocks that rise to a height equivalent of a football field on end. It is absolutely gorgeous! The people here are so much more genuine then in Athens and you can really get a true Greek feeling. We met two Turkish girl named Cansu (pronounced jan-su …

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I have already come. 'twas grace that brought me safe thus far, and grace will bring me home. Just ask Danny and Brian.

As I sit two days removed writing this blog, trying to think of how to articulate the experiences of Sunday, I don't know that I'm going to be able to do them any sort of justice. Methinks I wouldn't have been able to do …

... , w XIV w. odkryl to miejsce sw. Anastazy, ktory zlecial na skrzydlach orla na jeden z meteorow (z gr."meteora" -"zawieszony w powietrzu") i zalozyl tam pierwszy klasztor. Wyszlismy przez Kalambake, skrecilismy na szlak dla pieszych i wspielismy sie ...

... , in this case, the meteor.  Meteora means rocks suspended in the air, which also describs the scene at Meteora, where Greek Orthodox monasteries are suspended high above the plains on rock outcrops. The rocks rose dramatically from our balcony ...

... a night for a bed and shower?!? Fools - they could have charged us 100 euros at that point and I would have said "GREAT!" WHO KNEW Meteora was so cool?!? We got up and had greek salad number 2 or 3. We waited for the bus. It didn't come. We rented a ...

... time I had been attended to, the queue was 15 numbers from being served. The curly drive to the Meteora Monasteries was interesting. Greece, is actually quite dry in appearance. The striations in the rocks were fascinating. It looked like the land ...

... to be just as stunning in the early morning light and took endless photos, before visiting the largest one, Megalo Meteora.  Surprisingly, there was an exhibition in one of the rooms, of Greeks and their participation in wars. This seemed ...

We flew to Metéora today to see the Monasteries. The flight didn't take very long at all, less than an hour. We essentially followed a highway, the E 90 all the way there. It was an amazingly beautiful flight. We flew over Lake Ioannina and through a ...

Woke up in Meteora to pouring rain, the famous rocks had disappeared into the mist. We set off anyway to the first & largest monastery, the Moni Megalou Meteorou. The sign at the front said closed Tuesdays so that's OK we thought, and then found it ...

Today we arrived on the ferry and drive several hours to a small town in a mountianous area of Greece called the Meteora Region. We visited one of the mountaintop monastaries near the town, built there hundreds of years ago for protection and secrecy ...

OK I'm still catching up on my adventures!  Last weekend I went on a trip with the school to Meteora Rock Monasteries. It is probably one of the coolest most beautiful places ever!  We drove for about 3 hours to a city called Trikala. Trikala is in ...

I knew it would end in disaster lol we had to get up at 8 to go and get the bus to the top of the Meteora mountain things and it took us up this really long and winding road and the bus had trouble in getting up there.  When we got to the ...