Early to Middle Nov - Nafplio to Meteora

Somehow or other an entire month has almost past...and we are still in Greece. It has not really been intentional but things have worked out that way and acutally we have enojyed seeing so much of this country. We ended up stayig 18nights in Nafplio - the campsite was incredibly easy to stay on in, despite being the only campers most week nigths (it would then fill up with Greeks from Athens for the weekends). We enjoyed the fact the weather improved and we could spend the odd day at the beach, jumping waves, or pracitising swimmings, gazing at wee fish under the water with our goggles on, learning to fish at a remote wee local harbour (didnt catch anything), building model boats out of junk and then seeing if they could sail (i called this Art Class for the purposes of home schooling!), cycling to nearby villages, meeting the weekend visitors to the campsite who were all from Athens and Nafplio was there little haven to escape to, wandering in the old part of town (the Venice of Greece), meeting Christos the Travel Agent who helped us realise there was no short cut by boat to Egypt, meeting Christos's wife who sold me a great pair of hiking boots which i hate fashion-wise but love cos my feet are warm for the first time. We did day trips to Athens to sort out Syrian visas - which turned into an overnight visit as the Syrian Embassy decided to close an hour earlier than they had said they would on the phone (a sign of the joys that are to come the further south we go), we drove to Epidavros (ancient home of modern day medicine - "more stones" in the minds of 3 children) and we hung out with the two german families who arrived at the campsite just before we left - WITH children - hurrah! they were all lovely, spoke incredible English and we enjoyed nights sitting talking and letting the kids play and do crafts together during the day. Pieter also managed to drive over a kitten at the site.....eeek.........
From Nafplio it was back to Athens for a final night with Ioannis and his family, then north the next day to Stylida, East of Lamia. From this base (another deserted campsite) we did day trips to Thermopyles (amazing hot springs and the chance encounter with lovely Gunther and his wife who camp there for 3 months of the year) and to Delphi (“oh no....not MORE stones”) – of note was the very scenic drive through Mount Parnassus (took rather a long time and was steep and windy, but pretty amazing) to reach Delphi.
On the morning we left Stylida we got up at dawn and drove back to the hot springs for a final dip and a farewell with Gunther. The kids loved it there. Then off we set to Kalambaka to visit the amazing Meteora area.



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