Hotel Maxim Platamonas

100th km Thessalonikis-Athinon Platamonas, Macedonia Region, Greece

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Thessaloniki couchsurfing

A travel blog entry by rootsandroutes

... one imagines such a network to be very much about outward connection, it is clear that localised bonds are crucial to its reputation as a kind of community of like-minded people, rather than an organisation as such.

As the drink flowed more and more freely, the evening went faster, stopping only for a suitably raucous rendition of ‘Hronia Polla’, the rowdy Greek version of ‘Happy Birthday’, for a young Athenian visiting friends, in ...

Thessalonique

A travel blog entry by melindaoba

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Où j'ai appris que notre cher président était né dans cette même ville, dont est originaire sa mère. Enfin, c'est ce qu'ils croient, puisqu'il est bien né à Paris.

Sans nouvelle du couchsurfer qui devait m’accueillir, j’ai décidé de poursuivre mon chemin le jour même.

Dans une petite rue, des vêtements et autres articles de surplus de l’armée étaient présentés sur le trottoir. Le vendeur, assis sur le trottoir ...

From Thessaloniki, But About Leaving Turkey

A travel blog entry by oldrover

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... the third morning, maybe even early afternoon, I took a bus to Bursa.

It is in Bursa that I had lived the previous summer for three or four or five months. I can't even remember without checking my calendar. But I'm pretty sure that I felt less humidity this summer than last. Perhaps it was my imagination, but it just seemed better. Still quite warm to hot, but not so suffocating.

I had one purpose for being in Bursa. While living there I had purchased ...

Grapevines

A travel blog entry by jimmyrh

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When I was out enjoying the cool of the evening and having dinner the other night, I noticed there were a lot of police around. So I asked one of the staff of the restaurant what was happening, and he told me there was a demonstration taking place. I had remembered that there is an election coming up, and that there are campaign posters everyewhere. So I sat there at dinner, watching the police and the crowd start building. It didn't ...

The Former capitol of Rome

A travel blog entry by kasnsqueak

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... the vehicles to find no damage to either car miraculously.Having already driven 7,000kms intact to do this was unbelievable. After a futile trip he returned unable to find the shops and we headed to the attatched restaurant and had dinner there.

May 23rd Saturday. Wayne set off to the city by bus and i had thhe first drive of the van back from the village nearby 5 kms from the campsite. I did the shopping at the supermarket( more a small deli really) and ...