Our Big Fat Greek Vacation 2007

I don't know why these pictures posted twice...They are from Greece again. The pictures of Bernie and I standing near the wall of the ancient monastary buit in the 14th century high upon a mountain ledge bordering the deep canyon. We hiked up and down to get to where it was built. It was so cleverly hidden from their enemy, the Turkish Moslems who were always attacking them. The painting on the wall was actually painted where monks had built a church. The church was down lower than the monastary itself.

Tom and Mom are standing side by side with the exact same pose..the pose you do when you're entirely hot and sweaty.

Bernie took a fantastic photo of a hummingbird sipping nectar from those beautiful flowers after dinner one evening. The last one is of the rock houses they build in mountains. Everything is built from rock, structure, roof, steps, etc. The hotel owner told us, nowadays they cannot use rock from their own country Greece but must import stone in from Albania, their neighbors.

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