Tomatoes are amazing here not picked too early salads are Greek: tomatoes cukes purple onion green peppers olives(which i detested until i ate them here) feta olive oil it's dangerous eating it this country so much oil something is bound to get stained fish is expensive due to overfishing by the spaniards as they come in the straits off of spain and morrocco according to our captian so they have fish farms which can be seen from high up on the islands big rings of nets in the ocean octopus is big/popular hanging over wires above the fire being squished about/slapped [View Full Entry]

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Meteora from the root word Meteoros "to be suspended in air" we came in the night Lights were trained on the rocks and it looked like fog to our tired eyes we logged an 18 hour day and 400 some km and as we approached we realized the scale of the rocks watching over these towns seeing pictures of this place before we came here made it look like cliffs by the sea but we are not so near the shore and the masses of rock are parts of an ancient inland sea thrust up between more docile hills and mountains [View Full Entry]

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Hey all, Well, I had written a long and entertaining account of our time in Greece since we left Corfu, but the computer lost connection with the net while trying to save it and then lost it... I'm too upset to try and type it all again, so I'm just going to upload some pictures. [View Full Entry]

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ATHENS Breakfast of Greek proportions- of boiled eggs, cereal, yogurt, honey, cheeses, hams, good coffee and teas, great bread rolls sufficient for the girls to collect for a snack on the way. The car was delivered - a Volvo S4 series, which was just big enough for us to squeeze in. We left all the large bags at the hotel and packed our subset of “stuff” into small bags into the boot. Rodger kindly offered to drive but had to get used to the gears again and to an English girl giving instructions. Carmen, the English speaking Garmin GPS, sat on [View Full Entry]

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I write this entry on the train from Bari to Rome, after more than a FULL DAY of travel involving 2 buses from Kalambka to Ioannina to Igoumenitsa, then a ferry to Bari and now this lovely train. Ergo why no entry yesterday, although most of this entry will concern yesterday  So I got up extra early to take a taxi up to the second-highest monastery (I saw the highest one yesterday) with the intention of walking back down before I had to leave at 3pm. Actually had the same guy who took me around yesterday (Nikos) take me to [View Full Entry]

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Made it to Meteora in time! After being on the train from 11am to 4pm my time, I set foot in Meteora thinking that I had no chance of seeing the monasteries here today as most close around 5pm and it was a minimum 45 mins walk just to my hotel from the station, let alone the walk up to the monasteries from there. However! A taxi driver offered to take me up to the highest monastery (which is closed tomorrow) and let me visit it while he waited outside, and then to drive me around to the remaining monasteries for [View Full Entry]

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February 15th We went skiing in Hania, Greece which is about 45 minutes north of Volos. We woke up really early in the morning and the first thing I thought was.. “good God, what made this a good idea?” We got on the bus and rode the way up the mountain. It was so neat to see the higher that we went the more snow we would see, I mean I knew this would happen but it was just cool to see it happen right before my eyes. When we arrived we stepped off the bus to see that the snow [View Full Entry]

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Continuing the journey through Greece, I have made it to Meteora! After the last night in Athens and leaving in three inches of snow, we arrived in Meteora a little before 6pm. Shortly after, the city or town was explored. I find it to be quite quaint and must be a hot tourist destination in the summer as there are many hotels, cafes, tavernas, and beautiful places to sit if there were flowers. Today, we went up to the monasteries in the sky. The first place we went to was Varlaam and the second of St. Stephen. The bus wound it's [View Full Entry]

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Our first few days we spent walking around the city of Volos, it is much smaller then Athens, so I felt much more at ease almost immediately! We saw some of the older parts of town and the old Cretion church that now had a Greek Orthodox church built on top of it. We saw the water front and some of the beaches. However the beaches that are over here closest to the city are more rocky beachs then sandy beachs. But dont you worry I can get on a bus and ride for 10 minutes and be on a beautiful [View Full Entry]

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Few small islands near Piraeus... Angistri... Crissi... Hydra... Salamina... [View Full Entry]

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