Papillon Photos: Meteora, Greece
My first great trip was a month visiting Europe and Egypt after I finished my undergraduate degree. Let me tell you the months before the trip were filled with many moments of disbelief. I mean, I was going to visit Italy, Greece and Egypt. All those places were fundamental to the development of what we know today as Western society. I was going to visit the Coliseum, the Parthenon and the Great Pyramids. Those were reasons enough to get various episodes of goose bumps every day. However, the trip was not all famous landmarks and huge tourist sites. There were some obscure places that not so many people know about. I guess the trip planners wanted to keep a balance between known and unknown, between bursting and sleepy. And thank God for those planners or at least to the person who had the great idea of adding to the schedule a stop near the town of Kalambaka in Greece. Kalam-what? I said Ka-lam-ba-ka. This is a small town located in central Greece. But Kalambaka is just t...