Our four hour drive from Delphi to the magnificent monasteries of Meteora, set high above Greece's granary Plain of Thessaly, took us through fields of corn, sunflower, cotton, watermelon, lentil and wheat, and then into mountains speckled with fig trees and wild foliage. A family of storks, which migrate from Egypt to Europe, was seen nesting in a church bell tower. Meteora (Μετέωρα), the 'middle of the sky', is one of Greece's largest complexes of orth...

Our four hour drive from Delphi to the magnificent monasteries of Meteora, set high above Greece's granary Plain of Thessaly, took us through fields of corn, sunflower, cotton, watermelon, lentil and wheat, and then into mountains speckled with fig trees and wild foliage. A family of storks, which migrate from Egypt to Europe, was seen nesting in a church bell tower. Meteora (Μετέωρα), the 'middle of the sky', is one of Greece's largest complexes of orth...