Week 18 & 19 On Wed 25th March we get up at 5.45am to catch the early bus to be in at Aristeotelos Plateau in Salonika by 8am. Whilst we were waiting on the kerb for the bus to come ,this guy stops his car and says "Are you Michael?- the Trikala/ Meteora bus has been cancelled, as not enough customers, but as they did not have our phone number, they could not contact us. But he said there was a bus trip going near Mt Olympus and Dion which we decided to join. We travel to the town closest to Mt Olympus- Litohori. As it was Greece’s National Day, it was a holiday and a parade was being organised. There were musicians, the army people in uniform, as the tank army unit was stationed close
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