Odysseon Kalambaka
Kastraki Meteoron, Central and North Greece Kalambaka, Thessaly, 42200, Greece
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Greece Day 4: Long day, but worth it.
So MC and I woke up super early to get to Delphi, it wasn't a long bus ride, about 2.5 hours, which was a good thing. And because it was Easter Monday, the sites were free again! So the money I saved went into my leather sandals! Unfortunately because the sites were free, there was lots of people, including a few student tour groups. The highlight …
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Katakolo, Greece
... on the bus to the winery. Had the driver not warned us where it was we would have easily missed it. We got off the bus and walked down dirt roads for about half mile to the winery.
After a wine tasting, we were permitted to do a self-guided tour. We had about fifteen minutes when a couple of buses pulled up with tourists. Time to leave… We had asked about a local restaurant and were directed to one right near where the bus dropped us ...
Pinnacle monasteries
... it had a little museum of military memorabilia such as rifles and uniforms recording Greece's glorious struggles against various occupiers and made a point of telling us how impressed the whole world had been by the Greek resistance to Nazi Germany. I'm an admirer of ancient Greece but I think it is a stretch to claim that it is "the universal birthplace and eternal cradle of civilisation, the everlasting spiritual provider of the universe, the great teacher ...
A Lesson in Travelling Light
... clothes at the local supermarket and we were all set to continue our tour.
The only other down side was that we didn't get lunch till 4:30pm. Having had breakfast at seven I was so hungry that I very nearly ate a toothpick that I didn't notice was holding my toasted sandwhiches together. I was happily chomping away on my fist bite of sandwich (and wood) and only discovered the toothpick when ...
Holy Rocky Mountain High!
... climbers on the adjoining rocks. We found our group and our guide Maria handed us our entry tickets. The layout was more or less similar to Holy Trinity but it was larger and the frescoes were grander. We could only imagine what it was like in the Grand Meteora monastery.
Note: There are 6 monasteries and nunneries at Meteora. Each day one of them is closed for cleaning. Always check the schedule for the monasteries before you head for them on your ...



