Hotel Kierion Karditsa
Blatsouka & V Tzella Karditsa, Thessaly, 431 00, Greece
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Katakolo, Greece
... Fortunately, the directions were good as the restaurant had only a small sign. We went in and were greeted by the owner. We asked for a menu but there were none. We opted to trust his judgment and were glad we did. We had an assortment of olives, meats, feta cheese, grape leaves and, oh yea, wine. On the TV were the protests of the financial crisis. Art went outside with the owner to talk. Without getting political, the discussion was very revealing. ...
Hit and Run--really
... Spirit has two sources of origin and procession, the Father and the Son while the east believes the Holy Spirit's origin and procession is from the Father alone. These two issues could never be resolved between the two churches. Today, approximately 95% of the Greek population is Orthodox and most Greeks celebrate their "name" day rather than their birthday. Name day refers to the saint they have ...
Mighty Meteora
... in love with her so we decided to support her by buying some apples, oranges, cherries, cookies, and bananas for our lunch. She told us that it was really good that we were buying fruit for lunch, and started explaining which of the monasteries were the easiest and the most difficult. We said goodbye and as we left she kept on repeating “Very nice girl and boy, very nice girl and boy!”
The views were really spectacular and we climbed lots of stairs, I’m ...
The Monasteries of Meteora
... reached by climbing treacherous rope ladders. Monks still inhabit and take care of the monasteries and two are run by nuns.
The first monastery we went to was Agia Triada, or Holy Trinity. We climbed 140 steps to the top of the cliff and were rewarded with an amazing view. Inside, went into a beautiful chapel filled with Byzantine frescoes, gold chandeliers, and burning incense. This was also where the 1981 James Bond film ...
Monasteries in the sky
On our adventure to meteora we decided to take a back road instead of back tracking to Katerini. This worked out in Danny 's favor as he got to drive windy roads around the mountains. Sometimes I believe he thinks he's a race car driver and my last view is going to be us flying over the guard rails. But he is doing a great job of driving standard and I wouldn't want to be him. I found it a lot easier to navigate in Greece than I thought. Most of the signs ...


