Today is Wednesday and we left the shores of the Aegean Sea for a 3 hour journey to Delphi. It is actually straight across the Corinthian Sea from yesterday's visit to Corinth.
Delphi is the central point in the entire region of Italy, Greece, Turkey and N. Africa and home to now famous "Oracles" of Delphi. A temple to Apollo was built over a crack in the rock which emitted a gas which caused the priestess who breathed it to utter "ecstatic" messages from the gods. Amazingly, the last "Oracle" was to Caesar Augustus and foretold a Jewish baby who soon be born who would be the real king of kings.
High in the mountains of northern Greece we then drove over large mountain ranges and after passing through the farming valley which was inundated with the latest flood, we arrived at the base of Meteora.
We are not settled into our rooms and look forward to visiting the Monastery tomorrow.
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