Philippion Hotel Thessaloniki

... Everywhere we went it seemed there were crazy day-after-Thanksgiving female shoppers. I can&#8217;t count how many women I saw that looked like they were in the midst of their mid-life crises, trying to dress young and shop in skanky stores. It was a little scary.<br><br>Aside from that part of Thessaloniki, it did have some Greek-like things for us to do: a few ancient ruins to gaze at, an old church-turned-mosque to wander through ...

... br><br>Bin um kurz nach 20:00 gelandet, und um 23:50 dann mit dem Nachtzug weiter nach Sofia. 18,50Euro fuer die Strecke, habe aber noch fuer 10 Euro auf den Schlafwagen upgegraded, da der eine Waggon ziemlich voll war (und ich ausserdem doch recht muede war).<br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf<br>

... galleries. Here we went to an art gallery whos exhibits which ranged from several hundred beer cans arranged in a spiral to a musical video about communism. Top fun!<br><br>We also went in to a photography gallery and a museum of cinema which was quite cool. A pretty awesome 3D film at the end as well!<br><br>This passed most of the time we needed to kill and we filled the rest with wondering the streets looking around.<br>

... that happened was that our towels blew off the window ledge in the morning and we had to get a cleaner to lend us her biggest broom so I could hang out the window and knock them to James waiting on the pavement below.<br><br>We got a train down to Athens pretty early in the morning with the hope of getting there with plenty of day to spare. Unfortunately Greece did not appear to be well set up for inter rail users as nobody seemed to have a dfinitive answer as to ...

... around noon, when I did arrive around 8:30 I decided to sit in a park across from the rail station and read until calling him at the expected hour.<br><br>Tamer came and we walked to his "new" apartment quite near the rail station, but in the downtown of Eskisehir. In fact, it was at the end of the main street through town, and rather noisy for that. Three of Tamer's children from a previous marriage were visiting him and his pregnant wife. Still rather pixy-ish looking in ...

... about three people crashing a night, who had their phone number on their page. so they said i could stay, but i got off at a completely wrong spot (greek was pretty tough for me,) aaaaanyway, long story short, i was randomly asking people for directions at 1:30 in the morning when someone walking by said "are you scott?" so it ended up being my host getting off ...

Thessaloniki gave us a wonderful opportunity to sample some great Greek cuisine. We had dinner one night at Molyvos, an upscale eatery popular among the up-and-comers of this glitzy city. (Yes, we were underdressed.) The meal consisted of medzes (like Spanish tapas) with palate-cleansing splashes of ouzo between bites. Our menus paid apt, if grossly ...

... they would shine a spotlight in the center of the floor and a dancer would come out to perform. The first was actually a man dressed in what seemed like a woman's costume, but with a black mesh top rather than a bra. He shook his hips and contracted his stomach just like a woman would, but he was having a blast with it. He seemed so happy skipping around and shimmying for us that we couldn't help but cheer him on. Next on stage was a fire dancer who balanced a pole lit on ...

... else. We learnt that it is part of UNESCO and they are taking huge measures to preserve it. They are slowly dismantling the entire temple, storing all the pieces, rebuilding a more stable foundation for it to sit on, and then putting all the pieces back together exactly the way they were! (even the little pieces that fell off years ago) Just imagine what it will look like in another 100 years.<br><br><br>After our tour of the temple we headed back to Olympia to do a little shopping in the ...

... most of the kids I've met are doing a lot of eatern Europe traveling. Alex is spending 4 weeks in Romania and going to Isreal and a couple of other places. I also met 2 girls leaving for Istanbol and then they were going to travel down the Turkish coast. A little much for me I think, however Istanbol would be quite the experience! I'll let you know if I decide to make the trek......lol. So the only downside to my day so far is that I just ...