South America is calling

Yes, it is official...we have booked out trip to Machu Pichu and the Galapagos Islands for April 2015!!!
Can you hear the drum rolls?
We are so very excited...we were invited by a couple of friends to join their group after we mentioned that we had postponed our South America trip. It seems that fate had other plans!

Get ready because I intend to do a cooking class and to take some awesome pics!

Our travel consultant Lady Sanchez (who was kind enough to take us on) from ADVENTUREPERU is wonderful!

We look forward to meeting her and having a fantastic adventure with our friends!

Olive trees and .... have never seen so many!

Greece is a wonderful country full of richness and fruit of every description. We have seen olive trees (forests) everywhere we went. We have also seen oranges, figs, plums, pears, apples, peaches, apricots, grapes (of course) and yesterday bananas... I expected a lot of fruit trees but not ....

greenhouses!

The country is warm most of the year so why the towns of greenhouses? The growing season here is most likely two or even three crops per year. I was amazed at how many greenhouses there are in many places in Greece from north to south...literally greenhouse landscape the size of fairly large towns. Actually larger than some towns here...

 

But then there are always the olive groves...nicely laid out against the harshest of landscapes... this is Greece!

 

In Meteora the mountains are impressive...the food is not!

The mountains here in Meteora are fantastic looking...looming above everything in the town like giant pinacles.

The food unfortunately (at the recommended restaurant) is less than memorable. Don had moussaka (again! of course) and rated it a 0...yes that is correct... let me spell it... zero! He said he could not rate something with no taste! I sampled it and totally agreed.

The To Centro restaurant did not impress us with the flavor (or lack thereof). The dolmathes were marginal, the salad was ok, the meatballs were covered in a sauce that was good. We were told that pita is only fast food and not served there!
Well we will not be here for another meal!