We had an unpleasant experience as the conductor would not except our tickets. When we had come from Delphi, they had marked our tickets that we were going to Thessaloniki, so this conductor thought we had already been and were reusing the ticket, just because we had stopped on the way. Anyway we had to pay an extra $2.
Thessaloniki is the second biggest city in Greece, the old capital of the Ottoman Empire, and is near the birth place of Alexander the Great, and named after his sister. A Byzantine port city of 1 million people, misty and rainy. It is near to Turkey and 60kms from the Yugoslavian boarder. It is also home to the University of Aristotle. We walked to George's flat which he shares with another student. His father is a farmer near Naoussa. George wasn't there but his flatmate Panos and his girlfriend Katrina welcomed us, even though they had not been told we were coming. Paz was still not feeling well so she lay down while we talked and played computer games until George turned up, and later Demetrius arrived from Naoussa. Paz was not feeling well enough to go out so I tarted up and went out on the town escorted by these two short Greeks.
Photo by K Koudas
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