In May of 1993, Padma and I and our VW camper van passed through Meteora in our journey from Syria to Germany. I didn’t write a story about the trip but here are some photos.
Meteora is a collection of monasteries in the centre of mainland Greece. The region has what appears to be inaccessible sandstone peaks, but monks settled on these “heavenly columns” from the 11th century onwards. Twenty-four of these monasteries were built, despite incredible difficulties, at the time of the great revival of the hermitic ideal in the 15th century.
