After breakfast, we only hopped to Volos, the bigger town on the peninsula to charge the car to maximum. A fast charger gives you just enough time for a coffee which is exactly what we did. Afterwards, it was a long drive from the Pelion Peninsula to Meteora. Number 3 felt pretty sick again.
Meteora is just stunning. We were super lucky with the weather but all we did today was take the scenic route and enough the viewing “rocks” to look around.
With a stop at a supermarket, we were on the campground just in time for some home-cooked pasta. Greek food is delicious but we really craved something different for one evening.
Searching for a coffee place
Found a place! Really only did coffee so we also stopped at a bakery to get croissants
Back to the car, along the waterfront so we could look at all the boats
Poor Number 3 felt sick again from all the bends in the road and didn’t want any lunch
And then, mountains appeared on the horizont (geez, the car is dirty from all the Sahara sand!)
The first monastery of Meteora perched on a rock that we saw
But the rocks jutting out of the landscape would have been cool even without the monasteries
Quite impressive
There are about 9 (?) monasteries left in Meteora
The monks and nuns fled the bloodshed and made their monasteries almost invincible
Little explorer found a bug. It’s shiny!
This perch gave me vertigo. I only took pictures once I was back down
The kids are having a good time on the view point
Sitting down made it a little better
Four in one view
Up to the edge
You come around a bend, you get a view
What a cool road!
Stopping to go grocery shopping. The mountains are still there
The campground also had a view. It was the most crowded one we camped on so far.
We weren’t entirely sure what to do on the Pelion Peninsula. In the end, we decided to go on a round trip and give the kids some more time at a couple of beaches. The first beach we stopped at was Mylopotamos. It turned out to be lovely and we stayed to play with the stream and the rocks. Up the stairs again for a great lunch at Aggelika. Now, we wanted to move on but the Agent had found three girls to go exploring with for the second time. So a second exploration it was.
Afterwards, we finished the loop with a stop at Agios beach and a ride through the apple orchards in Zagora. Back to Camp Sirka for the night.
Muesli with Greek yoghurt for once
View of the Pagastic Gulf
All that honey we are consuming is produced all over Greece. It’s just the first time I get a picture of them
Right through the mountains
And down to the other coast again
Even the tiniest creek washed a lot of debris down. The Pelion Peninsular had a big storm last September and has substantial damage, especially the roads and the now non-existent bridges
We were later told, that neither beach nor stream had been here before the severe storm last year
All that greek honey must come from somewhere, right?
Another “Agent amongst the flowers” picture
20th century Nymph
took some coaxing to get them to wade through the chilly stream
Made it over, now warming up again
Everything is better on the rocks
The agent of entropy has a thing with sticks now
Epic gull pose
Only time I had ancovies, as I had to eat them alone. But soo good, with great bread and treats
The Greek-german dad of the three new friends told us that last year, he went here with the sea kajak. now it is filled up with 1m of debris
Never too early to experiment with hydrodynamics
A man proud of his work
Our initial plan was to head out after lunch. Then the kids made new friends and tricked us into beach round two
This tiny stream carried all the debris you see, ripped away multiple bridges along the way and tore 20 m of riverbank out last autumn
find the bee
Beach would get them any time, last stop on the pelion peninusla loop
The bee in question, had a good ride
this is an example image sparing you the view (and smell) of the impact of this on our poor Number Three
We made it back, down there would be our camp for the night
