Apartment Hotel Athina Alexandroúpolis

... square, they turned out to be cool dudes and we arranged to meet one day while I was there to play soccer, though it never eventuated.... My CS host Patrick was an excellent guy. He had spent some time in England so his English was quite good, it was good to speak to somebody with an advanced knowledge of English, for some time prior to this I had been finding it difficult to express myself sufficiently and to have an in-depth ...

... hurry up you have two minutes before they'll close the border again. So a narrow escape! We thought it would be nice to go and see the Dadia Forest Reserve, one of the best places to see raptors in Europe and only 30 km from the Turkish border. The same forest still holds a brown bear population but they are rarely seen. We checked in at the eco tourism place next to the park entrance, finished the Turkish Raki and Beer and went into the village. At the local ...

... many beautiful buildings. The main streets were pedestrianised and filled with pavement cafes. There is a wonderful church there, decorated with 120 Turkish rugs, gifts of merchants trading with the Ottomans. Bet you've never seen that before! Also within the church is a display on the life and works of Johannes Honterus, a 16th century scholar and philosopher who would have been famous but for the fact that he was ...

... the M25 in the rush hour on a skateboard! The town is full of historic sites haphazardly dotted around to be discovered by the unwary visitor. Sadly, for them, most visitors seem determined only to discover the route from hotel to beach to bar to taverna thus missing out on some lovely peaceful places. In the 19th century a French amateur archaeologist/journalist/royal toady dug up and removed some beautiful and historically important marble carvings from Thassos and other places ...

... Demaneu explıcacıons a les protagonistes) Sı vols continuar cap a l Est, segueix amb l Aleix i el Magnus, que es trobaran a Istambul, per travessar Turquıa ı entrar a l Asia central a traves de Georgia i Azerbaıjan. ( per a aquesta opcio queda t en aquest bloc, o busca el bloc den Magnus a Worldnomads.com, operatıu d aquı uns deu dıes).

... a bus to the village of Dikella-- the supposed beginning of the E-6 trail. One and a half hours later we are still waiting to leave Antheia. Finally arriving in Alexanderpoulis, we realize we missed the last bus to Dikella and walked to the camp ground. (At this point both Matt and Gus have decided they want to live in Alexanderpoulis permanently, at least somewhat for the beautiful women they had spent the past days shmoozing). The camp ground was ...

... shnitzel. Mushrooms stuffed with a parmesan like cheese, other wild picked shrooms topped with olive oil and more local cheese--- dear jesus were those things amazing. This is the type of meal where all utensils are abandoned as they inhibit eating. All of us sucking on our fingers, covered in charred bits of lamb, washing it all down with lemonade. And finishing with cooling watermelon. In one ...

... 10 km from Antheia to Alexanderpoli. It took us an hour and a half and we are certain now that we will continue to rise at first light, walk for a few hours, then find shade and make our lunch during the high heat of mid-day. By 10:30 it was 30 degrees celsius! Who wants to walk in that? In town we bought a new camp stove and did some grocery shopping for the next few days. Greece is NOT cheap. A package of feta is anywhere ...

Last chance to spend our Euros wýth our last nýght ýn Greece. Spellýng apart these computer keyboards are all Greek to me! ýts better ýf you close you eyes and try and type by memory. That dýdn't help eýther! Anyway we are campýng about 40 mýle from the Turkýsh boarder and hope to cross and fýnd the nearest campsýte.

... BY LISE .....