Daily Updates
Week Seven: May 5
05 May: The Tetrarchy continues with Sarah and Sarah Reporting: Everyone dust off your berets, black turtlenecks, and saxophones: it’s open mike poetry update time.
Like dew we were born.
Like dew we vanish.
The monasteries at Meteora and all that we have seen
Are but a dream
Within a dream.
05 May: Our new bus: bright, blue and air-conditioned!
05 May: Meteora: a glorious harmonization of nature and architecture.
05 May: The Great Monastery of Meteora.
05 May: Views of the rock formations that make Meteora so interesting.
05 May: The access tower of the Great Monastery.
05 May: Inside the monastery.
05 May: The ossuary.
05 May: Another view of the ossuary.
05 May: The monk's quarters.
05 May: The instrument used to call the monks to prayer.
05 May: Detail of a window.
05 May: Detail of a window.
05 May: A courtyard inside the monastery.
05 May: The bell tower inside the monastery.
05 May: A monk's cloak and canteen.
05 May: Old wine casks and storage bottles.
05 May: Another view of the storage vessels.
05 May: The pulley system once used to transport supplies and monks to the top of the monastery.
05 May: Closeup of the net.
05 May: Rebecca ventures out onto one of the rocky projections.
05 May: A larger than life wine cask.
05 May: An exterior view of the Byzantine churches.
05 May: Some monks stroll through the monastery.
05 May: A monk with a video camera.
05 May: Another monastery perched atop a rock formation.
05 May: A view of the valley.
05 May: Another view.
05 May: Hey, it's Mike way down in the valley.
05 May: Meteora.
05 May: Views of Meteora.
05 May: Views of Meteora.
05 May: Views of Meteora.
05 May: Sarah poses at Meteora.
05 May: Sarah's feet in some extremely clear water.
05 May: Randy and Anais.
05 May: Mike, aka Atlas, bears the burden of the rock and its monastery.
05 May: The enchanted trail that led from the top of Meteora to the town of Kalambaka.
05 May: Mike inside a hollowed out tree.
05 May: The tree itself.
05 May: On the Road to Ioannina!
05 May: During the stop on our way to Ionnina, we found snow!
05 May: The view from the mountain.
05 May: Chris, Evan, Sarah Murray and Mike pose with Prof. Christesen in the snow.
05 May: Posing in the snow.
05 May: Posing in the snow.
05 May: Leslie Takes a Break
05 May: Even in the snow, spring bursts forth.
05 May: Katie, I think... sleeping on the bus.
05 May: Mike with an interesting old tree.