Well...we are now back in Paris after a wonderful last (warm) week in Greece. The monasteries in Meteora were great fun. We visited all of them (there are 6 up in the rocks) by foot over a whole day. Lots of hard work and bush bashing as 'marked trails' on maps in Greece are pretty much non-extistent. Lara's good sense of direction (don't laugh, she was born upside down, hence in the northern hemisphere she's actually really useful!) and bush walking knowledge helped get us back to the hotel! Otherwise we learnt there's really not much else to do in Kalambaka other than eat good meat and baclavas (yes, our culinary experience continues!). We were eager to leave the beautiful Meteora for the ancient city of Athens, catching a 6.30 am train, that in true greek style didn't actually leave until about 7.30am and would continuously stop at random places...not stations!?!? Finally we arrived at our 12 euro (that's 2 times an ice-cream super cone!) a night hostel, not quite knowing what to expect but we were pleasantly surprised with a clean, useable kitchen and friendly hosts! We visited all the anceint sites...the original Olympic stadium, the Acropolis, Roman Agora, Ancient Agora and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. We also managed to fit in the Archeological Museum, hilarious parliament changing of the guards (they have ridiculous pompoms on the end of their shoes and have weird dances/marches!), Moonlight cinema at the foot of the Acropolis (Mamma Mia in Greece, Alex LOVED it, Lara was not so charmed), traditional Greek dancing and the planetarium!!! Overall a pretty charged couple of days but as you can see we didn't slack off over our vacation! With a smooth flight into Paris, we were met by Alex's uncle and came back to her grandma's. We visited Paris yesterday, going up the Arc de Triomphe and eating out with Basile, a friend of the Westcott's. Now Lara is off to Bordeaux to catch up with family and commence her studies!!! I'll upload photos soon, if you have a chance to check them out, we did take about 600 though so there might be a fair bit of sorting to do!
Weather in France is dismal!
Love from Lara and Alex
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