honeymoon day 23, a little footpath goes a long way

day 23.

our B&B in Kalampaka in the morning light

The yummy chocolate and orange sponge cake for me. we had a whole breakfast bar just for the two of us on our first morning.

The Metora rocks out in your backyard.

crossing the railway track. the shortcut to anywhere.

the little small fragile kitty who chased us up a slope for food that we didn't have. Much later in the day, we returned to the same spot with some cat biscuits which we bought, but it was already gone

The Holy Church of the Dormition of Theotokos, built between 10-12 AD, an excellent example of Byzantine Architecture during those centuries.

we love how the little windows cast streaks of light all over the monastery, creating that awe-inspiring aura

one of the many murals inside

and then it's time for us to start out hike up into Meteora. "Follow the little footpath", the landlady at the B&B says. "It's an easy 30min walk up!"

the little brown dotted line was the pathway we took

we believed her and walked up the little footpath with no water nor supplements. It took us an hour to see the first monastery. That says a lot about our physical stamina!

 

view from one of our many rest stops.

our first monastery - Agia Triada - did you see it in James Bond For Your Eyes Only?

we have an updated schedule of all the monasteries from our B&B landlady. There are certain days where a monastery is not open to the public. And on this day, it was supposed to be open, but due to some reason, they decided to rest for a whole week...

after an hour's hike and 140 steps up the carved stairs to Agia Triada only to find that it's closed, no wonder bushyhead decides to sulk.

a low point. "The road is long..."

Agia Triada from afar

we picked ourselves up and walked the zig-zag road (road!!! another option we didn't know we had. deja vu?) to the next monastery - Agios Stefanos, the only convent around

 

As luck would have it, Agios Stefanos was on a long lunch break. It was freezing and windy at the top of those rocks. We were hungry, thirsty and tired from the hike. We were also resigned to our stroke of bad luck. So we gave up, called a cab and returned to town, hoping the next day will be a better one..

It was a fantastic day "hovering in the air", nonetheless!

we asked the taxi-driver to take us to a restaurant with good food, and he brought us to the city centre where the taxi headquarters is next door, to this restaurant on a slope.

the interior... homely!

our late late lunch

a happy bushyhead

the city centre. I like to walk off a huge meal, so we walked round the town to find kitties to feed.

but luck really wasn't on our side that day...

so we went back our B&B and spent the evening with delivery pizza and a hungry resident doggy

i love the balcony, if only it was not so cold!

having our take-in dinner at the dining room table set by our lovely landlady especially for us

Thank you for taking the time to go through all the pictures! You can follow all the other days of our honeymoon by clicking on these links:  day 1 & 2 (Frankfurt), day 3 (Frankfurt & Switzerland), day 4 (Switzerland), day 5 (Switzerland), day 6 (Milan), day 7 (Padua & Venice), day 8 (Venice), day 9 (Venice & Florence), day 10 (Florence), day 11 & 12 (Florence), day 13 (Rome), day 14 (Rome), day 15 (Rome) , day 16 (Athens), day 17.1 (Athens), day 17.2 (Athens), day 18 (Athens), day 18 part 2 (Athens), day 19 ( Santorini ), day 20.1 ( Santorini ), day 20.2 (Santorini), day 21 (Santorini), day 22 (Santorini & Meteora)

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