Meteora to Mount Olympus - Day 10 Tuesday 17th September It was a bit damp when we woke up in Hotel Sydney, Kastraki but it soon brightened up. By the time we got to our first Monastery of the day, it was very sunny, though not as hot as the Peloponnese. We started at Varlaam which was a big one and full of tourists. There were quite a few steps to get to it, although it's a lot easier now they have a bridge rather than winching you up the rock in a rope basket. They had a very colourful church of which, all of the inside walls were totally covered in paintings. We were stuck in there for ages as independent tour guides didn't care about blocking the routes and we were stuck listening to
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