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ageless Alexander the Macedonian, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

ageless Alexander the Macedonian

A travel blog entry by bogna

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... 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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

No Souvlaki

A travel blog entry by lucinate

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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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Thessaloniki and Greece

A travel blog entry by meganandkevin

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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 ...

Night Train to Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Night Train to Istanbul

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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Thessaloniki Again, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Thessaloniki Again

A travel blog entry by melissagquest

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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!!, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

I have arrived!!

A travel blog entry by aal11

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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!!!, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Fin de la 2e grosse partie!!!

A travel blog entry by sebjossi

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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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Thessaloniki

A travel blog entry by gas_greece

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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..., Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Clearly you are an American...

A travel blog entry by aal11

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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Surprising Thessaliniki

A travel blog entry by oldrover

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... 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!, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

The adventure continues!

A travel blog entry by aal11

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... 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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Greece - Coming Home

A travel blog entry by caseygcrosbie

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... 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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Good ol' greek reality check

A travel blog entry by canadianjulie

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... , 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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Learning and Exploring

A travel blog entry by aal11

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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 , Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

From Thessaloniki, But About Leaving Turkey

A travel blog entry by oldrover

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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!!, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Family Visit!!

A travel blog entry by aal11

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... 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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

The first of our adventures in Greece

A travel blog entry by mdaa

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... 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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Even shorter stopover in Greece

A travel blog entry by schwate

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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 ...

a taste of Eastern European railways, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

a taste of Eastern European railways

A travel blog entry by lilyc

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Enjoying the City, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Enjoying the City

A travel blog entry by aal11

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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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Voyage around the Agena sea

A travel blog entry by col.caf

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... 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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Thessaloniki

A travel blog entry by shannon

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... 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 ...

Grèce, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Grèce

A travel blog entry by mleleu

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Double Night Trains and Chocolate, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Double Night Trains and Chocolate

A travel blog entry by lilyc

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... 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, Thessoloniki, Greece travel blog

3rd missionary journey

A travel blog entry by ktbug06

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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. ...

Salonika, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Salonika

A travel blog entry by gas_greece

Almost there, now to find a taxi for the trip ot the ...

Transit flight to Athens, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Transit flight to Athens

A travel blog entry by aggelosthe

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 ...

Encore une journee tres penible..., Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Encore une journee tres penible...

A travel blog entry by sebjossi

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Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Thessaloniki

A travel blog entry by surffisher

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, Thessaloniki, Greece travel blog

Salonika's Ghosts

A travel blog entry by grenzenlos

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 ...

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