Meteora Monasteries

For our last days in Greece we decided to travel to the North to see the Monasteries of Meteora.
If there's no more space in the second class, make sure you travel in first class for the impressive price of 16€! And after that, you just have to hope you get on the right train... The signs are somehow hard to read...

The meteora are monasteries on top of Giant rock formation, the landscape is from another world!

Island Hoping and closing the season

From the Pireus, Athens' harbour, we took a slow ferry to our first destination Santorini. Slow ferry means 14 hours, while we could do it in 6 hours.

You've all seen Santorini before, it the post card and calendar Island! A bit artificial but very nice with spectacular views from the cliff.

The Island is litterally full of tourists during the day coming from their huge cruise ships, but just before sundown, they all sail away, so we had the whole Island for ourselves.

Here is a view before taking our ferry to the next destination: Mikonos

Mikonos looks more like a real place, and more genuine. Here's the view from our hotel.

Just like Santorini the Island is full during the day but very relaxed in the evening.

Athens

This T-shirt print looks like a joke, but in fact remember your maths is the best way to know how to read greek signs: lambda is L, sigma is S and so on, so after a few days reading the names of the places is no more a problem...

Athens is a very cool town with a good "latin" feel to it, some streets were really similar to being back in Colombia. Of course, one of our first destination was the Acropolis!

Salzburg - Alpes

Arrivée chez nos voisins les Autrichiens, on adapte notre tenue vestimentaire!

Vue depuis le chateau de Salzburg, une fois vers la montagne, l'autre vers la ville

Départ de notre rando de 3 jours, sous la pluie. Lac de Königsee à 600m, et l'église de St Bartholomé

Certains passages sont assez vertigineux, avec quelques passages en via ferrata, sous la pluie les cordes ne sont pas du luxe...

Plus on monte, et plus la vue du lac est impressionante, jusqu'à arriver au plateau à 1300m et atteindre la limite pluie-neige.

Heureusement que le refuge est bien équippé

Au matin, réveil avec 15 cm de neige fraiche, et la suite de la via ferrata.

Arrivée au refuge deWatzmann à 1930m d'altitude et 50cm de neige fraiche. La vue sur la vallée se dégage.

Nous nous réveillons le troisième jour sous un super soleil et au dessus de la mer de nuage.