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Meteora: The mystical mountains that enchanted a British columnist

Meteora. The poet and painter Edward Lear, once wrote that no pen or pencil is capable of describing the monasteries in the mountains of Meteora. A Daily Mail journalist, who visited the mystical mountains in Thessaly, confirms it and also feels lucky to have lived it! His three-day trip to the heart of Greece, as he recounts, was a unique experience. Thomas Hodkinson's trip started at Thessaloniki. Arriving in Meteora, he saw the enormous stones inexplicably rising from the midst of the plains. The first images. The first feelings. The ...

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