So this past weekend was lots of fun! We decided to take an overnight train to Thessaloniki late Thursday night and then were ready for a full day on Monday! While Thessaloniki is still Greece's second largest city, I got the feeling it was much less cosmopolitan than Athens. We referenced our Greece guidebooks and made sure we went around to see as many sites as possible, visiting museuems, churches, interacting with Greek people, and just walking around! We decided to go to Thessaloniki to get a taste for northern Greece, since much of our free weekends thus far have been spent on beautiful Greek islands! Oh- and good news! I've unloading my pictures from my camera thanks to help from HP customer service. So tomorrow I can start showing what Greece looks like! More to
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