Slept in until 8.30 this morning. It felt good to relax a bit prior to going down for a good brekky. After checking out we took the free shuttle down to the city water front and purchased tickets for the 'hop on, hop off' bus. Showing 8 different stops we got off at the third stop to inspect a very old church. Amazing how much importance the average population put on all the trinkets. Quite disturbing to see so many people coming in, crossing themselves endles...

Left the hamlet of Delofo after a good walk around the place. Delofo is about 160 years old and many buildings are in ruin. Apparently in the winter there are about 6 people living there (very cold & snow very thick) and about 80 in the summer. When we were there, we only saw about 15 people. We drove off looking for the place to hire bikes but ended up at Vikos Gorge which is in the Guinness book of records for the deepest gorge in the world. We walked do...

Booked out of Monastri Guest house, what a lovely place and the lady did everything she could to make us welcome, even asked us to put in a good word for them, on their website.... Travelled up to the Monastery's in the rocks behind Meteora, these places are amazing, perched on the edge of rocks hundreds of feet high. The amount of steps involved to get up to these places was pretty tiring but well worth the effort. One of these monastery's was huge and had a ...

Today we checked out of the Delphi hotel and packed our belongings into the car. Having done that we walked about half a kilometre out of town to the historical ruins and museum. These contains some of the oldest but best preserved artefacts from around 600 BC right through until about 1500AD These ruins were very complete when discovered about 140 years ago so there is a lot of detail regarding Greek mythology dating back to the time of Christ and even earlie...

It was finally time to leave Athens so we checked out of the Hotel and took a taxi to the hire car company. Picking up a little Toyota we made our way out of the city onto a freeway to clear the Metro area. We noticed a lot of abandoned buildings that are falling derilict - the finacial crisis has hit hard with many construction projects just stopped midway, 4 years ago. Soon we started climbing into the mountains, Greece has huge mountains and the views are lik...