The Nunnery and Monasteries at Meteora

 Hi everyone. It's another end of the work week already.  As I mentioned last Friday, I want to finish up my photos from Meteora, Greece and show you some photos at the actual the monasteries/nunnery.  I'm linking today's post up to Nicole's Friday Face Off  and Gillena's Friday Lunch Break. And this should be it for trip photos, at least those for Greece at Friday Face Off and Friday Linch Break. I might have a photo or 2 in some future post if it relates to the post topic. 😏-grin.

In case you missed the post or are interested in viewing last week's post, you can find it here: Meteora Part 1.

Today I'll show you some  views after climbing up and visiting  a couple of the religious centers. First is the nunnery, and then one of the monasteries.  Photos weren't allowed inside any of the religious centers, even though we were able to visit areas within them.

Let's start with the nunnery. I showed this photo last week, but just to give you a view of the building for perspective.

    I mentioned last week how women were required to wear skirts to enter any of these religious buildings. This is an unflattering photo, but here's yours truly and one of my traveling companions at the nunnery. There you were given skirts to put on and not charged to use them. At the monasteries they charged you  a small fee (I think 1 or 2 Euros) to use a skirt. We had large scarves that we brought along,  and  we wrapped them around our jeans. I don't have any photos of us in our scarves, but I have one at the Nunnery in our lent skirts.

     This is also my face for Friday Face off. 

You can see we just wrapped them around our jeans.

These next 2 photos show the area at the outside of the nunnery.  As I mentioned, no photos were allowed inside at all.  You can see some stairs and the path that took us up to and then away from the building. There was even a little bridge you had to walk over, but when you looked down from the bridge you could see the beautiful little garden area. Visitors weren't allowed to go down into the garden.

Here's a much more flattering (maybe grin) photo of us taken from one of the outdoor patios in the nunnery.

And I thought you might get a kick out of the public bathroom at the nunnery. 

The lady in the next stall and I had a good laugh about it.

Most places had more complete toilets or at least toilets with bowls, but this one was so unique I had to take a photo of it.

This monastery was our next stop. The sign was tucked away behind some trees as we walked  in. 

Here's the view of looking from down below. I also showed this photo last week.

This monastery had a lovely outdoor patio-like area. Not for sitting though, even though in the gazebo (which is in a later photo)  you could sit for a bit.

And there were some views too. In this first one you can see all the cars in just one parking lot. Each monastery has their own parking area because the buildings are spread out. This wasn’t the main lot but at least offered extra parking. 

Eeks. I'm not a fan of heights, and so I'm glad there were wooden bars on this window.

You might remember the little basket on the pulley I showed you last week. This is where those baskets come and go out.

More of the lovely patio.

This was the largest brewing barrel I have ever seen.

And this is a cool way to recycle part of a pot. It's so pretty too.

Another patio view.

     This monastery had a small museum where photos were allowed. There was some interesting information about it's history, and then some artifacts which I though were interesting. It was hard to photograph  many of the pieces though between the lights and the glass over them. But here's a couple including an old illuminated manuscript and some lovely ancient stitching that is so well done it looks like it was made with a machine. (But of course isn't.)

I apologize for the long post, but it's time to move on so I decided to squeeze it all in one post .

That is it for me today, and my last Friday Greece post. Have a super weekend ahead.