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Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 4 – Kalabaka⁩ and Meteora

After our party evening, we had a good nights rest and some coffee in the morning. After that, we hit the mountains behind Kalabaka to see the Meteora rocks and the monasteries up there. In the early 9th century monks started to stay in the caves there. It took another 500 years and they started to build the monasteries. The first woman who was ever allowed to enter one was Queen Marie of Romania in 1921. More information: Wikipedia

Downtown Kalabaka

Monastery of the Holy Trinity

It was build in 1475

Monastery of the Holy Trinity

Inside the Holy Trinity Monastery

Looking down – in the good old times people and goods travelled up here with ropes and nets.

View from the Holy Trinity Monastery

Kalabaka from above

Monastery of St. Stephen

Monastery of St. Nicholas Anapausas

Monastery of St. Nicholas Anapavsa

It is a bit touristy here

Time to hit the road again and drive to Kozani where we planned to spend the night.

Above Verdikoussa

Outside Evangelismos

Above Leptokaria

The Ladon Lake or the Ladon Reservoir

Bridge over Limni Polyfytou

Cows

Goats

Unpaved roads

Only a few more kilometres

Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 3 – Athens to Kalabaka⁩

After a few lazy days in Athens, it was time to hit the road. The car is old and the seats really shitty. There was no music only the radio – and no way to connect the iPhone. And even if – Mitsos has one of the worst tastes in music there is. So that part of the trip was horrible. The good part of the trip: Landscape – lots of it out there and we had blue sky for almost all the trip! On top of that, it was off-season so no tourists and since we took the small back roads not a lot of traffic. Great!

Close to Tanagra⁩

Close to Thiva⁩

Somewhere after Xyniada⁩

Close to Makryrrachi

Not a lot of traffic outside of Xyniada⁩

Don't you love this roads?

Sheeps not to far from Tamasio⁩

The first of many trucks hauling cotton. You see the white cotton next to the road!

Cotton county close to Menelaida⁩

Big Sky!

Cotton trailer

Happy Mitsos – finally on the road!

Monument in Trikala town for those who fought at hill 731
Italy declared war to Greece after its denial to let Italian troops pass the land. One of the greatest battles was from 9th to the 26th of March 1941 and it was for the “Hill 731” located 20 Kilometres north of Kleisoura at Tepeleni Albania.

Waiting for the Italians to charge

Back on the road again. Follow the sun he said!

More cotton fields

The usual procedure – small vehicles bring the harvest to the big trucks

And with the big truck it goes to the factories

Close to Kallifono

From time to time a cotton truck slows down traffic. But most of the time there is no traffic.

After Karditsa

Mitsos never stops eating

The sun is low

And casts a nice shadow over the fields

More nice clouds before Sellanoi

Finally dinner in Kalabaka⁩

After dinner we found the best place in Kalabaka⁩

Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 2 – Athens

A few days to relax and roam Athens before our road trip. Took a bike with Mitsos and we drove a bit in the centre.

Athens Graffiti

I love the Graffiti in Athens. It is everywhere and there so many great pieces all over the place.

Palaio Faliro

In the evening we stopped at Mitsos mothers place in Palaio Faliro. Walked down to the water and to the Marina

One of the few old houses left in Athens

The rest looks very much same same but different

Church of St. Alexander

The human looks at the sun

The cat looks at the human

Submarine Memorial

A visit at the Flisvos Marina

Flisvos Marina – something different from the usual Athens walks. 303 stern-to berths and half of them for super yachts.
You find more information here: http://www.flisvosmarina.com/en-us/

The Samurai was once a record-breaking racer and was later refitted as a super yacht. Before it was rebuilt the boat was known as the Mari-Cha IV. The 42.4-metre schooner’s sole purpose was to set speed and distance records. She broke the transatlantic record and the longest distance in 24 hours. She also won the Rolex Transatlantic Challenge, broke the Guadeloupe to Antigua record and the Hawaii Pacific Ocean record!
You find a good article at www.boatinternational.com

The Al Salamah. Build in 1999 with a makeover in 2009. A crew of 96 takes care of up to 40 guests.

The Crown Prince of Bahrain is the owner of the yacht Al Salamah. Al Salamah was built by Lurssen in Germany for the late Prince Sultan of Saudi Arabia.

If you want to park a boat like this here for a year it will set you back a bit over 1 Million €. More information on the yacht: Wikipedia

The Radiant – I saw her a few weeks ago in Malaga

View from the restaurants

Some more art on the way home

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Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 4 – Kalabaka⁩ and Meteora

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