The Tobacco Hotel Thessaloniki

... thing that happened here was being able to meet up with a familiar face. I have a friend from SPU who happened to be traveling through at the same time so we met up and the three of us went exploring a little together. It was fun to see a familiar face. (Her name is Ann and she was my P.A. on my dorm floor freshman year.)

Something I didn’t know about Greece before arriving was that they don’t flush toilet paper down ...

... the border into Turkey - the connections were to random, so my best option was to travel 10hrs east to Istantbul and then return 6hrs west to get to Gallipoli. The night train departs Thessonaliki at 7:40pm and should arrive at The 'Bul at 8am - we arrived just after 11am!! Yep - thats 15hours on a train!! fortunately the night train is a ''sleeper'' and I had my own compartment - with a fold out bed - the only down side to this was the heating that ...

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 Adriakueste, die sieht recht viele ...

We got back to Thessaloniki and we were going to have to spend the day there as the train out to Istanbul did not leave until the evening. Our expectations for the day were low based on our previous experience but we actually ended up having quite a good day!

We walked along the water front and saw a massive blue jelly fish which was quite exciting before heading to a pier that contained a few interesting museums and ...

We arrived in Thessaloniki from Macedonia late in the evening and as there were no trains continuing down to Athens that evening we were forced to spend the night.

We stayed in the cheapest place we could find which was probably a bit of a mistake as the bedroom floor was sticky (thankfully it smelt of beer) and vefore we checked in what can only of been a prostitute came and took the "concierge" away for 5 minutes to sort out some business :s

The most exciting ...

Well, it was bound to happen at some point, I suppose. My plans for the day didn't work out. I was planning on renting a car and making a long drive to visit several Pauline sites in northern Greece today. It was going to be a long day, and most of the sites didn't really have that much to see from the first century, but I felt like they needed to be on the itinerary.

I got to the car rental agency at a little past 8:00 this ...

... of the city, went to some places i had not been yet and some that i had.  We went in the Museum at the White Tower and it was really cool! I didn't expect it to be so cool inside!! They had all these different displays about the history of the city and of the tower.  For dinner i took them to my favorite tavern that i go to with all of my friends that has the best chicken souvlaki and some of our favorite servers. On Sunday morning, my dad rented a car and we drove to the ...

... because now we had to pay for our water. So we sat there and tried to devise several escape plans to leave without being noticed. But everytime we looked around our waiter made a motion to come to our table. As the girls sat there and tried to think of a way out, they sent me to ask Stefanos if the bar he worked at had desserts. And as was our luck that night, his bar didn't either. So we sat there and wondered how much the water was and if leaving 1,20 euros was ...

... nap to catch up on our jetlag. 


Just headed down for a couple Mythos beer and some pictures of the mountains. Met the history buff hotel employee and got some really good tips on where to go and where to take some great pictures. A few too many beer on jetlag later and we're back in the hotel, ready for some snoozing, 11:45pm and ready to rest and start another adventure tomorrow.




Day 4 - July 1st - Kalampaka & Trikala (Happy Canada Day) 


Thessaloniki, Macedonia Region, Greece c2funk

Last time we saw Konstantia and Ramin was in their shabby rented victorian terrace in a non-discript suburb of Rugby. Today they are kneeling inront of the alter in a towering Byzantine Cathedral in Thessalonikki. The space is filled with collosal paintings, alters and religious acoutrements. The light is golden from the massive chandaliers and glowing candles. A black-gowned and bearded priest ...