Stomping on ancient history.

They have a lot of rocks here. And they like to pile them up, especially way up on the tippy top of rocks and hills. Then the raids, earthquakes and gods messed up the neat piles so now ruins are scattered all over Greece. There’s so much of the stuff that you can’t build a subway or foundation without unearthing some millennia old artifact, much less walk down the street without tripping over some temple to Zeus.

We clambered our way up to the top of the Acropolis to see the Pantheon, dragged our feet up through Delphi to see the Temple of Apollo, braved the tour groups at Olympia to stand in the original Olympic stadium, used the fallen city of Mystra as our jungle gym, and threw caution high into the wind to explore the monasteries built on rocky cliffs in Meteora. Twice we hiked to the top of Meteora...

-Mary