We Have Arrived in Greece

After all that waiting, we made it. Here we are in Greece. It looks very different than I expected. It actually looks like lots of parts of the US I’ve been in, including Utah (also Arizona, Southern California, & Wyoming). At Delphi the mountains look a lot like Rock Canyon, just with Greek ruins at the base instead of a road. Here’s the view from my hotel room balcony in Delphi.

Our first stop was Meteora. These are monasteries built on top of really high rocks. (James Bond climbs one of these in For Your Eyes Only.) We visited two of the remaining 6 sites (originally there were 24).
It’s amazing that these could be built back in the 14th, 15th & 16th centuries with no helicopters, cranes, etc. To reach the monasteries a person had to be lifted by a net that was winched up. Luckily we had stairs. Lots of them.