Thessaloniki
Travel Blogs from Thessaloniki, Greece
ageless Alexander the Macedonian
... that he e.g. likes the smell of coffee (once we were walking nearby a café and M. said: "mmm, smells nice"). Interesting. Thessaloniki has quite a lot of nice secession buildings, but they look like nobody takes care of them. Also, there are some ...
No Souvlaki
We were supposed to arrive yesterday (15 Aug) afternoon at 17.00 giving me time to enjoy some greek quisine. Arrived at 4am Greek time (3am Albanian time) to find the train station closed. Bugger. They opened at 5am so we sat down outside on the ...
Thessaloniki and Greece
Our host at our last place was nice enough to drive us to Thessaloniki about an hour up the road. Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece and is home to close to 1,000,000 inhabitants. It is also home to what seems like just as many ...
Thessaloniki Again
A slow morning in Thessaloniki. As it turned out, too slow. We slept in, did laundry, grabbed a late breakfast, walked slowly to the Archaeological Museum, sat in the cafe for a while and cooled off (which was complicated by the fact that the ...
I have arrived!!
Hello! I have arrived here in Thessaloniki, Greece! My flight from Frankfurt, Germany landed at about 17:45, yes I am going to use military time cause I need to get used to it. Side note, the time is 7 hours ahead here. It was rainy when Dave (my ...
Fin de la 2e grosse partie!!!
Super nuit de camping dans un beau coin... mais les chiens ont de nouveau fait concerto toute la nuit... Bien dormi qd meme, j'etait juste mort. La Grece c'est top, des beaux paysages, des gens cools, et deja un peu de depaysement, l'alphabet grec ...
Thessaloniki
We were driven to Thessaloniki by our new friends in the village. It seems to be a very busy city with plenty to see, but we only had a few hours as we were flying back to Athens early the next ...
Clearly you are an American...
So this weekend we decided that we needed to catch up on sleep and be sure that we were completely over being jet-lagged. As it turns out, we haven't quite adjusted totally to the time difference. On Saturday, my roommate and i didn't wake up until ...
Surprising Thessaliniki
... biography (this one for the second time) by Andrew Mango, Ataturk. It's the better of the two. The bus trip from Istanbul to Thessaloniki, Greece is scheduled at 11 hours. But it can be less, it seems, if there are no customers for some of the locales ...
The adventure continues!
... us back into town for some neighborhood walking tours. We walked around for quite some time, all the way through siesta. Yes, Greece has a siesta time from about 2:30 - 5:30 where things close. When we got home we decided we would take our ...
Greece - Coming Home
... I found myself unconsciously mouthing the words- "Welcome home." I felt as though I was walking into my past - to visits to Greece many years before and to time spent in Churches so similar to the ones I visited today. The glow of the icons ...
Good ol' greek reality check
... , or it will be rather lonely, especially since I can't even chat with the random salesperson or passerby. Thessaloniki, the second city in Greece, is extremely busy. The city centre is crowded with buildings and people, and looks slightly worn down. ...
Learning and Exploring
As the days here in Thess continue it just keeps getting better and better. Yesterday my roomate and I, along with Dave and his roomate went exploring in the city, as you will notice by all the pictures from yesterday! It is really such a cool city. ...
From Thessaloniki, But About Leaving Turkey
This posting is being finally edited and sent from Rijeka, Croatia, August 12, 2009 as I try to backfill the story of moving along. So, back to the taking leave of Turkey. Unfortunately, not enough time for reflection yet. Or, rather, the reflection is ...
Family Visit!!
... 40's as well as current Greek soldiers. It was really cool to watch. After the parade we started making our way back to Thessaloniki. We stopped in Lichtohoro, the base of Olympus, for some dinner and i got to see the mountain one more time. It is ...
The first of our adventures in Greece
... language written everywhere and a few ancient ruins in random places in the city, I really wouldn't have known I was in Greece. Thessaloniki is a really big city, with tons and tons of clothing stores and cafes everywhere. There are also mass amounts of ...
Even shorter stopover in Greece
Hallo zusammen und viele Gruesse aus Thessaloniki in Griechenland. Billigflieger fliegen selten in die ehemaligen Ostblockstaaten, daher sind meine zwei Fluege hier nach Thessaloniki in Griechenland und zurueck von Dubrovnik in Kroatien (an der ...
Enjoying the City
HI everyone! Wow it has been quite some time since I have updated you on my life! The last 2 weeks have been pretty laid back. I have just been enjoying my life here in the city. I have definitely gotten a lot more settled in and am ...
Voyage around the Agena sea
... the trains were in fact French and were unexpectedly comfortable on the inside. The first train took me to Thessaloniki in the northern coast of Greece. Perhaps the network left a little to be desired, but the train ride was probably the most ...
Thessaloniki
... get to know them. For lunch they dropped us off, and a group of us found a Pizza Hut to eat at. I think we've been in Greece long enough that we no longer feel the need to seek out Greek food to eat; we just look for something that sounds good. Way ...
Double Night Trains and Chocolate
... in Greek. Enunciating the word for viscous, "pahirefsti" (which I cannot write in Greek cause the first thre eletters were pi, alpha, chi...) I had one appropriately done cup in Thessaloniki's harborfront Havana Cafe. Quite ...
3rd missionary journey
hey this is a short entry but i just wanted to say hi!! I love you all! i am in Northern Greece for a couple of days! Today we went to Philipi, and to the river where Lydia ( lady in acts 16 that was converted) was baptized! it was pretty cool. ...
Transit flight to Athens
A quick espresso coffee in Thessalonica's Macedonia Airport, checking in at Aegean Airlines flight to Barcelona via Athens departing at 06:00 and Barcelona is even ...
Thessaloniki
After hanging out around Olympus on Thursday, we set out for Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city behind Athens. We did a drive-through, got stuck in rush-hour traffic, and decided to abort Thessaloniki to stay closer to Friday's destination: ...
Salonika's Ghosts
The train arrived very early in the morning in the heat an humidity of Thessaloniki, Greece. Barely conscious, I found my way to a cafe for Burek and coffee and to get my bearings. Thessaloniki (also called Salonika and Solun) is the capital of the ...


