Meteora at last!

We got up early to drive up the mountains to visit the big Meteoro Monastary. But not early enough, since the first busload of Japanese tourists was already at the gate. Like the big Johan Cruyff once said: “Every disadvantage has an advantage”. So we mingled in the Jap crowd and no monk noticed we were taking pictures inside the monastery which is forbidden.

Thank god for my Minolta’s anti-shake, so the photo’s came out quit good!
We spend about an hour in this monastery and after that we drove up to the recent opened mountain road to the Monastery of Stefanou. Not much to see there (said several travel guides) but the road to it gives you the best view of the Meteora area!!!!

But we had one stop on our way back to Parga; Dodoni, an ancient Greek site with an enormous amphite theatre. Like most Greek excavations it is small and contains mostly some boring rocks (!?!), but we enjoy sites like this. Not much tourist and you mostly have the place to yourself. And the wild flowers were …. Ehm…. All over the place!!!! So not much rock to see!!!!