Day 44 Tuesday 24/09 Kastraki (Meteora) > Delphi 25 deg Sunny John here...Another day of driving...we left Kastraki for Delphi a 220km drive. The road took us through the Pindos Mountains, so it was six hours of concentrated, intense driving, usually in 1st/2nd gear as we zigzagged our way to Delphi (see blog picture). We had lunch on the top of one of the mountains - tinned tuna and cardboard crackers "yum". We got to Delphi around 3pm and were advised w...

Day 43 Monday 23/09 Metsovo > Kastraki (Meteora) 25 deg Sunny - Enid here...Another lovely breakfast served by George, the hotel owner. The sun was shining, these mountains sure are beautiful. Only 7 tunnels to Kastraki, relatively short drive. Very different landscape to the mountains, reminiscent of Cappodocia with meteoric rocks rising, some up to 700 Mts. We checked out the six monasteries and nunneries which are perched on top of theses rocks and look...

Day 42 Sunday 22/09 Metsovo 16 deg Cloudy - Judy here...After a leisurely breakfast of egg, homemade bread, jams, spanakopita and the best cup of tea in a while, we headed off to explore this quaint village which clings to a mountain side 1200 mtrs above sea level and is over 2000 years old. Our accommodation is new and extremely comfortable and built in the traditional style of the village, with lots of wood. We checked out craft shops, cake shops and coffe...

Day 41 Saturday 21/09 Thessaloniki > Metsovo 24 deg Sunny - John here...We left Thessaloniki for Metsovo via Dion. It was a straight shot down to Dion so I was then "conned" to drive up Mount Olympus. Road started good and progressively got worse to almost a goat track, so after driving 7km in an hour we were back to visit the town and it's archaeological site. The site had numerous temples to the Gods and was also supposedly the battle training field for...

Day 40 Friday 20/09 Thessaloniki 26 deg Sunny - Enid here...Walked to pick up our hire car, itching to get to the shops that we passed on the way, but, set off on a 200odd km all day round trip. Firstly to Vergina, where we saw the tomb of King Philip II 336 B.C., father of Alexander the Great. We were "blown away" by being able to see his tomb and the intact gold, silver plus bronze, iron, leather, pottery artefacts from this era found in his tomb. We took t...