METEOR AND METEORA

(Echoes of an Expedition in Greece)

-by the Gartzau Order of Great Flights-





If “meteoros” means “suspended in the air”
and “meteora” means “high in the air”
then certainly
Meteora is not the feminine of Meteor!
(God forgive me!)
Thus, sky lovers ask themselves:
What else can be…?

-Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-





The connection between the meteor showers
and the Meteora monasteries?
Sometimes it is better to confess like so:
I don’t know.

-Victor Chifelea-





Perhaps one of the reasons for which
those places were named Meteora
is for the glory…
of astropoetry!

-Constantin Huth-





Now I really understand that
one of the finest challenges in life is
to watch a meteor shower
over the Meteora monasteries.

-Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-





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Photos: Mihaela Chifelea, Mihnea Huth and Mariana Huth
Design: Florin Stancu
© 2009 SARM
(Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy)