So after Meteora we've continued to wind our way West towards the coast. Firstly though, a word about the weather, particularly as it's been so bad in the UK. Now some people said it would be too hot in Greece in July and that anyone in their right mind would only go there earlier or later in the year (you all know who you are !). Unfortunately I have to report that the nay sayers were wrong. Although the sun has been shining and the tempertaure has regul...

Just a quick update here as we only spent 2 nights in Meteora but it was quite a dramatic place. It is these huge rocks that were pushed up from the earth about 10 million years ago, give or take a few centuries. They've then eroded to give these really wierd rock formations. And then in the middle ages various orders of monks decided it would be a really good idea to build monasteries on top of some of the pinnacles! So there is now this wierd combination of spe...

On the way from Mount Olympus to the Pelion Peninsula we stopped in at another archeological site - ancient Dion. This was where the ancients worshipped Zeus etc and was where Alexander the Great built a sanctuary to his favourite god, Isis. It was a very big site and not all that well explained so some of it just looked like rubble, but the sanctuary to Isis was quite evocative, I guess because there was water there and still some statues. After that south to V...

So after a whistlestop tour of Bulgaria, we hit Greece on schedule more or less and immediately headed for the nearest beach This involved another ringroad (Thessaloniki) this time, which just wasn't funny after only a couple of hours sleep the night before, especially as half the signs are only in Greek script so M had to have a crash course in translating it. After a couple of wrong turns, we made it onto the Halkadiki peninsula and bedded down at Epan...