Today, the motorcycle is parked and we visit the city. We have done many travels and in each one we adopt a different style for the trip, depending on which country we are visiting. As Greece 🇬🇷 has so many places with lots of things to visit and see, usually better done by foot, we will adopt a two (or more) night stop strategy in same place and travel maximum of 300 kms. This takes more time but we believe it is the best for this trip.
It also gives us an opportunity to do our washing with plenty of time to dry 😉.
And that is what we spent our morning doing, as well as catch up on emails and a number of other tasks that had taken second priority in the last two weeks as we made our way here.
Had lunch in a very typical Greek restaurant and had mezes (like tapas). It is fascinating to watch Greeks interact with each other. They are unique and I had never encountered a culture like this and I am enjoying their intricacies and learning how to recognize them. Restaurants are full and there are many people on the streets just walking, many with their large families. I expect that unemployment is high. Waiters are helpful but they do things on their own time. Most people speak English (much more than any other country we have visited on this trip). Prices are quite high and the Euro has had an inflation impact in everything. During the day we did the hop-on hop-off tour (which takes 80 minutes if you do not stop) and stopped in various locations to take pictures and visit some churches and well known sights.
The architecture of the city is very nice with an old part of the town with narrow streets on top of the hill and a newer section with wide avenues, close to the sea. Everywhere you go there are a multitude of cafes and restaurants where locals sit and talk.
I was totally surprised by the amount of graffiti in the city. Reading about it, it started as street-art, some of it is supposed to be political and even humorous (although we could not understand any of it). But a lot looked disgraceful and in my opinion it is excessive and has a bad impact in the city.
If you can look over this though, we liked our day in the city, the second largest in Greece after Athens.
The city is great for street photography and we took hundreds of pictures that we will cherish and come back to them to revisit Thessaloniki.
We ended up our day, sitting in an Italian restaurant and having a pizza while we watched the Thessalonians walk by the seaside and thinking about Paul, as he wrote the two letters to the Christians in this city.
How much time has past and things have changed.
The fitting end of a full day was given to us by nature as we watched the blood moon, on a cloudless night, over the White Tower which has been adopted as the symbol of the city.
Make Life a Ride !
Facebook post with some photos of the day
Click HERE to see all the photos and videos of DAY 2 !
It also gives us an opportunity to do our washing with plenty of time to dry 😉.
And that is what we spent our morning doing, as well as catch up on emails and a number of other tasks that had taken second priority in the last two weeks as we made our way here.
Had lunch in a very typical Greek restaurant and had mezes (like tapas). It is fascinating to watch Greeks interact with each other. They are unique and I had never encountered a culture like this and I am enjoying their intricacies and learning how to recognize them. Restaurants are full and there are many people on the streets just walking, many with their large families. I expect that unemployment is high. Waiters are helpful but they do things on their own time. Most people speak English (much more than any other country we have visited on this trip). Prices are quite high and the Euro has had an inflation impact in everything. During the day we did the hop-on hop-off tour (which takes 80 minutes if you do not stop) and stopped in various locations to take pictures and visit some churches and well known sights.
The architecture of the city is very nice with an old part of the town with narrow streets on top of the hill and a newer section with wide avenues, close to the sea. Everywhere you go there are a multitude of cafes and restaurants where locals sit and talk.
I was totally surprised by the amount of graffiti in the city. Reading about it, it started as street-art, some of it is supposed to be political and even humorous (although we could not understand any of it). But a lot looked disgraceful and in my opinion it is excessive and has a bad impact in the city.
If you can look over this though, we liked our day in the city, the second largest in Greece after Athens.
The city is great for street photography and we took hundreds of pictures that we will cherish and come back to them to revisit Thessaloniki.
We ended up our day, sitting in an Italian restaurant and having a pizza while we watched the Thessalonians walk by the seaside and thinking about Paul, as he wrote the two letters to the Christians in this city.
How much time has past and things have changed.
The fitting end of a full day was given to us by nature as we watched the blood moon, on a cloudless night, over the White Tower which has been adopted as the symbol of the city.
Make Life a Ride !
Facebook post with some photos of the day
Click HERE to see all the photos and videos of DAY 2 !
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