Adonis*** Naoussa

A late start to the day seems the norm now... After "breakfast" at 11:00 - we headed into town to see the rest of the city. Along the way met new locals - pelicans!! Quite funny as they wobbled through the narrow streets like they were shopping too!.

A moment of madness made us decide to rent 4x4 bikes ...

Can it get any better? Perfect weather with a warm breeze... We sleep until we rise - 10 am! Bella has never let us sleep in this late! Breakfast on the terrace (check out the picture!) - and then we spent the morning by the pool (far more civilized than the beach - they bring frozen fruit out for one's....)... Now we are off to lunch - at 4 pm... so dinner will be right on time at 10!

... of work on the site, Professor Manolis Andronikos unearthed a series of chamber tombs accepted as those of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.


They were buried beneath a mound of dirt, and, although two tombs had been
looted in antiquity, the displays were astonishing! Two tombs were ...

... oevrigt ikke engelsk i denne by overhovedet (bortset fra paa denne internetcafe og i touristinformationen), men vi klarer os med at pege i vores fortrolige (Turen gaar til ...), vi er dog stadig i tvivl om vi har morgenmad paa vores hotel, da det graeske ja hedder naeae. Vi tror hun rystede paa hovedet og sagde naeae, hvilket gav meget mening til at starte med indtil vi kom i tanke om at naeae betyder ja :o , vi faar af se .. Her til aften gik det isaer op for os at graeske byer ...

... many of us ended up in different places by the end of the night. Jared and I walked down by the bay with two other girls, Danica and Florida, and my roommate Allie trying to find a place to sit and have a drink. As soon as we turned the corner near the White Tower a stray German Shepard dog began following us down the sidewalk. We thought it was just coincidence at first, until we realized that as we would come close to street corners the dog would run ahead of us ...

... of an ancient site and its artifacts that I've seen so far in Greece. The tombs and the museum, as I wrote, are in one earth-birmed building designed very much like a tumulus-style tomb, complete with long dromoi into it, so you are underground yourself as you view it all, as if you'd gone back in time and could walk through the earth. The lighting is very, very low, I think for three reasons: to keep ancient paint from fading, to ...

... map but takes a long time to travel because it's a twisting, winding, two-lane Greek mountain road. But it's very scenic. We noticed that, suddenly, the vegetation wasn't so low and coniferous as in southern or mainland Greece and the hilltops weren't so dry and bare. Oaks and other deciduous trees had replaced pines and cypress. Eventually we reached the "Egnatia Odos," that is the Egnatia Highway or, in Latin, the Via Egnatia, which is a new eight-lane ...

In keeping with my bizarre need to spend time in transit, I took a day trip to the middle of nowhere. Luckily though, this section of nowhere happened to be the burial site of Alexander the Great's father and son. Although the actual burial site was just a large mound of earth, it's been converted into a museum and now houses the burial treasures. I was particularly ...

... in the original position they found it in. We saw a lot of grave goods. Most of it involved gold pieces that were really tiny and intricate. It was all really amazing, although I was hungry and ready for lunch when it came. Walls of Thessaloniki As a last stop before we got on the train, we went and visited the walls of Thessaloniki. We walked through the gates Paul probably walked through entering the city from the Via Egnatia. From up there ...

... death was an unplanned event, so the grave was built hastily. The only marble piece is the doors that were sealed with a bronze mechanism. Although it was a rush job, Alexander spared no expense burying his father. A suit of ceremonial armor was found and a burial bed has been reconstructed by piecing together hundreds of small ivory pieces that decorated it. We ate lunch in a local taverna. It was a hopping place that afternoon with lots of old Greek people ...