Tuesday-Mistras and Kosmas

Tuesday-Time is flying by
This morning we headed to the village of Mistras to see the ancient remains of the walled city. These were the most intact ruins we have seen thus far. Climbing to the top of the mountain where the churches and palace were located was no easy task, but well worth the effort. For us flat-landers the mountain vistas are just incredible. From the top it was clear why this community chose the location, not just for its beauty but it was easy to defend from their enemies since it was so difficult to ascend.
Cold and exhausted from our climb we returned home for a late lunch and decided to rest awhile. Afterwards Anna joined Zaha and us for a trip to the mountain village (higher up still) of Kosmas only babout 15 min. away. As we departed near dusk we could see that it was snowing in the mountains and as we aapproached we had to stop on the side of the mountain and put snow chains on the tires. Since Anna was not confident about driving on the snowy mountain roads so Kirt took the wheel. When we made it to the top it looked like a quaint, Colorado, ski village and we were in about 6 inches of snow! We has learned yesterday that my grandfather's family used to summer inn Kosmas when it was too warm in Vrontmas. The views were breathtaking, but we didn't linger long as we wanted to start down the snowy roads before it was too dark. We arrived safely home and Anna prepared a wonderful bowl of avgolemono soup (egg lemon chicken soup). What another special day! Luckily 3 snowy pictures of Kosmas uploaded, but sadly we can't get anything else to :(