016: Exploring Meteora UNESCO World Heritage Site and Family Skiing in the Greek Mountains

That, we share is as deep as the sea no. Matter, how. Things. May come to, be you. And, me. I'm single. Stay by your side. Right. Okay. Only if you wait for me to finish this okay. Last. Blog is all about wintering. In left casts there is no, sailing, in this blog but. We, did get to explore, the mountains, that we can see in the background we hired a car so. I thought I'd gone for a slightly bigger car but when we picked it up. It. Was a nice of Micra. Ready. So, here we are in. Our first Greek service station. Amazing. Missile Micra. The. Journey up there was was easy there was hardly any cars on the road it's, almost like nobody goes driving. In Greece so, as we got more into the mountains, there were more tunnels to cut through the mountains. We. Were staying in Mexico it, was like a mountain village with cobbled, streets, and, it. Was like kind of an alpine. Village it was amazing. So, we um spoilt, ourselves, a little bit we've got a room with a bath and we, didn't wanna leave the room and evening so easy to get takeaways, into the room and have lots of nice hot bubble baths. It. Was actually, probably, about four, months since I'd had a bath that's, one of the things you miss really on a boat you have a shower but you don't get to do a ball it was a really nice hotel the people that ran it were great and it was quite homely it's, just what we needed you. Know. So. Here we were in our comfy beds it was about 750. Moaning and then we got woken up. Today. We're, going to famous. Monastery, tomorrow. In. 1.7. Miles. Meteora, is a UNESCO, World Heritage Site and it, consists of six monasteries, that are built on top of these stone pillars. This. Is one of the monasteries is the Rousseau no one and. Many. People, go, to meteor on a pilgrimage and, there's, still quite a strict, dress code so you if you're a female then you have to borrow, one of their skirts to, cover up the lower body. Let's go it's really amazing. Built. It just to wear the rock finish a book that's where there's built it on top of it. And. That was with the old ladder that they would have carried, with the rocks on the Dell. Wouldn't. Matter there. This is where people were a bit bring things on the pill. Thanks. To the labor skill. And passion of, the monks who appeared and, safeguarded, the manuscripts. I, think. It was kind of spooky, because I was skulls, and bones but. I really liked how, the monastery was really pretty. When. These monasteries, were builds. They. Purposefully, made them quite difficult to get access to and, now you can get to them through little, paths but even the paths you go up and you go down and you cut through the rock and it's quite difficult. There's. No one down there now I'm going to go around to see the last three. When. We left meteora we, need, to stock up on a few things especially, some local wine and some fruit so, he found a lovely little roadside, place and. We've got got some things it, was not like your usual roadside, and service. Station. So. Next morning we had a fantastic, breakfast. Delicious. And. We decided to go and see if we could try some skiing out. We. Couldn't find much information so, we finally worked. Out that if we drove a bit further into the mountains there was a place there that we could actually go skiing so. It was a small place, it was quite local, they didn't take cards, here to pay everything in cash. Exactly. And. The, slopes weren't huge but they were really good for learning on. Steam. Straight together, that's it. It's. Quite a struggle trying to teach a young child how, to ski and stop, because it's really hard work it's tiring on their muscles now this way turn push. On this leg. So. The little one was just about to give up and they, let us switch, and use the dragons and then it just changed, the whole situation. In. Fact, after. We started bargaining it became quite competitive. Kids. Are. You on the line. Three. Two, one go. No. Tell, your bitches part. The. Next day we discovered, that there were some ski lifts higher up in the mountains we. Also heard. That Julian. Simon who, are also liver boards on our pontoon were, going to be in the area Simon. And Julie. Offered, to help, teach the kids and Simon. Happen, to be a ski, instructors. And we grabbed the opportunity obviously. Hi. So we're at anelia resorts, in Greece 30. Minutes, drive from Mexico. Which is fine nice place to stay and. Yeah, isn't snow too quite well but it's pretty good now there's not really very many icy patches really. Nicely freshly, groomed today as you can see pretty, much got this place, ourselves because there's, a few people going up with a chairlift but. Other than that there's. Just us we top the mountain you've got a red, float coming. Down and. Also. This is a blue slope, there's. A couple of green slopes and there's also baby slope down the bottom for the kids you, think. So, you, and had another go, he was much better learning, from someone else rather than his mom or his dad so, it finally clicked with, Ewan, and Ewan worked out how to use the button left by himself.

Speak. Slice these slice. Hey. So. By the end of the second day we could actually ski, as a family a family all five of us together. And. With Simon your instructor, we, say goodbye to Simon, Julie they were heading on somewhere else we. Were so grateful for them to spend that day and we had a really nice time as well it's amazing when. You meet people. In. One, marina the, amount of skills they have to, offer and it astounds, me every single time and you've just got to grab the opportunity I think, we'd like to call it something like opportunist. Learning so. The next day we can resist and we came back again. We. Tried some of the smaller circle opes and practice what we learned home. On the wall hi, mommy. I've not been down this one before Wow. And, I think anyone has today. We. Finally, reached the point where, we thought we could take him right to the top of the mountain. So. This is the chairlift going up to top the mountain and you. See the others so, very records is ready for a black. Little. Steps. Well. Some are from the Bears payback. No, Pervez, no just, big brown bears they, could have your brother for lunch and. Then, you for pudding. In. Straight. Okay. So we're right at the top of the mountain now and in. The background is, Mexico. Where. We're staying and the, road that we had to drive up to get here. That. Is very beautiful, okay. So all the way up north is the pintos mountain, range. It's. Pretty high up here but. Because we like taking, risks and stepping. Outside our comfort zone we. Are going to ski, down, it. Are, you ready, where. You going, go. Gone. Slowly. We're, on a, chairlift, i'ma. Goin after the. We. Covered. Okay, let's go. A. Survey. Of excitement, we're. Going to create a little jump that's when you kind of slope this. Can jump over. Slow down slow now, straight straight. What's. It. How many lands, bend, your knees. Triangle. Of activation, from. So. Once you in had worked out how to ski then, we can there was no stopping him he was he was loving it and we hardly saw him. But. It is reasonable, here it costs, for. An adult it's 25. Euros, to. Hire skis, and look past all day. And the, kids it's 15 euros and. They can just golden elixir like and, that's key highway all day from, 10:00. Until 4:00, it's. Quite. Berry. Then. We had a brilliant day, going. Right the top on the chairlift it was really exciting little, bit nerve-racking but yeah, it was really good beautiful. For the ski instructors Cates, but ha plus 3 and is, about half an hour till it all stops but, we don't want to stop. We. Don't know where we're heading next because the, Corinth canal is, closed. It closed because some rocks fell into it because of the bad weather and. So. We don't know whether we can get round to Athens, around. The south, side so. We're not really sure where we're gonna end up the next blog but we'll definitely be sailing, again. She's. Picking stuff they're, foraging.

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