Thessaloniki Hostel

Train in from Thessaloniki, 2 nights in a hostel near the train station, and return.

... landing us in the city at 11:00pm. This is not the best time to try and find accommodations. Apparently there is only one hostel in Thessaloniki and its not much to write about. It only has 2 rooms, one for boys and one for girls and the owner is only ...

... got the bus and I was wandering about Thessaloníki trying to find an internet cafe at 9pm trying to find a CS host or a hostel. I met this guy who gave me directions and we ended up having a beer together somewhere. I managed to contact Nasta, who ...

... Thessaloniki at 2pm and try and catch the train to Athens to find out yet again that no they have no seats.. another night in Thessaloniki.. ummm hell no.. we catch a taxi to ferry terminal and decide whatever the next ferry is we are on it.. only to be ...

... off to the station to catch my train.  It was an...interesting journey, but I'll save that for my next post. When I left Thessaloniki I had been in Greece for 28 days, which is the longest time I am spending in any one country on this trip. ...

... hate pools, but, oh well) and Michelle got to work up a sweat in the private gym. We didn't do much sightseeing in Thessaloniki. We were getting a little homesick, so we had American style burgers at a popular restaurant on the Pier, then we went to the ...

... are wearing coats. It appears heat is not in the cards today. Nonetheless, I become educated on the Byzantines. Apparently, Thessaloniki was the second most important city in their empire (after Constantinople) and hence, we quite the seat of culture. ...

... a rumour about a 17.30 bus on Monday. We clung on to this and decided to call it a night with regards to escaping Thessaloniki, and besides, at this stage we had more important things to do, like celebrate my birthday! The night started late, but with a ...

... up on my Albanian. The Roma family were eventually thrown off the bus after an hour of waiting and we finally plodded on towards Thessaloniki. The bus driver came down in the bus later on and I tried to ask him what happened but his vocab did not extend ...

... the idea for a weekend trip to Bulgaria to attend the premiere was born! The idea was simple: Sofia is only 280km away from Thessaloniki, 5 hours by train (1 hour at the borders). I already knew of a good hostel in the city and the overall cost of the ...

... known it was going to be this shitty of a ride I would have been on my way to Switzerland. Okay. Yesterday we arrived in Thessaloniki at about 4ish and walked into MacDonald’s. It was like a dream to see those arches. We found a hostel and took ...

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear Carlos, happy birthday to me! Without any problems, I arrived at Thessaloniki and checked into the Hotel Rex. I decided to have a rest! I was not feeling very well at all. And on my birthday ...

... city and the ancient capital of Maccedonia, there wasn't a lot to see. Yet, it felt a lot more welcoming that Athens. The hostel was definitely the first of its kind for me. Having arrived on an overnight train, I figured I'd just wander into the place ...

... .  I ate 3 Choco Fresh (delicious chocolate Kinder treats which aren't appropiate for breakfast) and then wandered back to the hostel where I found a note from Rob saying that him and Spiros had passed by, couldnt find us and were now on their way to ...

... their brains out!!! We skipped home and picked up an enormous bottle of vodka and vanilla coke. We headed to the garden of the hostel and had a few drinks with a dutch guy, a german guy and an extremely wasted romanian girl. But who were we to judge her? ...

... . We book a train for the following day to the city of Thessaloniki 6 hours north of Athens but still in Greece. 2 nights in Thessaloniki, it has shopping to rival athens in many ways but other than that, its just another shit hole city. I didnt hate the ...

... once we got sorted it was about 21.30pm so the 4 of us made our way to dinner and then off to bed. The train to Thessaloniki was great almost as comfortable as German trains but for a while i thought we were going to have an issue with our passes, the ...

... bus to Istanbul we went back to the train station to wait. We read and used the wireless Internet on my phone until about 11pm when we walked back to the bus company office to get on our bus to Istanbul. That night we left Thessaloniki at around ...

... smoke we’d washed off from Montenegro came back with a vengeance in Serbia. The next day we weren’t leaving for Thessaloniki, Greece until night time so we had another day to explore Belgrade. That we did. We walked all around the city, ...

... she loves Americans. Apparently she loves me above all other Americans. She introduced herself to me as the 18-year old Michaela from Thessaloniki, and got even more giddy when I said I was a super-sexy 2 years older than her. For the remainder of the ...

As mentioned in the previous post, my train journey from Thessaloniki up to Sofia was ...interesting.  It started out OK, and the train pulled away on time.  I was a little confused about where I was meant to be sat and accidentally sat in the ...