Around Zagorohoria.

We spent most of Sunday touring other villages and sites around Zagorahoria with Eleftheria's parents. They had spent some time here previously and had some ideas about where to go.  

Emily enjoyed a morning snack with us at this newly renovated building.

Emily has changed so much since we arrived at the end of July.  She is much more engaged in her surroundings and smiles a lot.  She has a very pleasant temperament and proved to be a good travel companion.

This is a close-up of the roof construction on most of the buildings in the area. The slates on our roof in Medina are at the most 3/32" thick, uniform in size and shape, held in place with nails into wood sheathing over uniformly spaced rafters.  These are not!!!

This is one of 45 bridges built during the late 18th and 19th centuries to aid in trade and travel among the villages.  This one is the Bridge of Noutsos, built in 1750 over the Vikos River.  As you can see it has been a particularly dry summer.

I love seeing the building methods. In this case, the bridge parapet. I doubt ODOT would approve, but what skill and ingenuity!  

This is a 15th century monastery at the entrance to a trail for viewing the Vikos Gorge.

Another stop on our tour was at Vikos Gorge which according to the Guinness Book of Records is the world's deepest at 900m.  There was absolutely no way to do it justice photographically.

The village of Mikro Papigo as seen from Megala Papigo

A common feature of many of the villages is a plaza area with a variety of sycamore in a raised circular planter bed.