The train form Kalambaka to Thessaloniki left at 7.20am and arrived in the main station at around 11am. We explored the harbour and surrounding areas which are expensive and protentious(sp) but then found a nice little market which was much more to our liking, we walked around for a while in the hustle-and-bustle and finely baught a small oil burning candle thing which we had seen used in the monosties. We left the market and dropped into a supermarket to buy som...

3 Days Spent In Kalambaka Day 1: Luckily we were able to hide most of our equipment in an adjacent cave and headed out for the day scrambling with just day sacks. We headed for the cliff top monostry visable from the town. It was a pathed ascent which was a fairly steep and taxing hike. As we neared the first monastry we were able to fully apreciate the enormous effort put in by the greek monks to build these monestries on top of rock pinnicles, unfortunatly th...

Our third day started with a 5hour train jurney from Athens to Kalambaka (metiora monistries) which started at 8.20 in the morning and arrived here about half 1, the train was very full so for the first while we had to sit in the luggage compartment. we then got seats miles away from each other and while oli was talking to a woman that was studying biochemisty in athens who spoke english, i was watching a man with no teeth eat loads and loads of buiscuits. and fo...

YESYES day2 --Athens Half way through last night we felt kinda hungry so we set off into the night on some fat mission to try and find any shop that was open. We only managed a pack of breadsticks and some horrible chocolate biscuits and we learnt that food is not easily found late on asunday night in Athens. Yesterday from the Parthenon we looked out over Athens and the only other raised part of the city was what we thought was a church on top of a massive ...

It began with a flight from Gatwick to Athens