A return to Thessaloniki Photo 4

A return to Thessaloniki

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November 7th 2011
A little more than four years after first visiting Greece, I found myself back in Thessaloniki for a long weekend. Since that visit was at the end of a very long ferry-bus-train trip, I found myself much more relaxed and awake after only a five hour drive split over two days. We spent Friday night in Skopje and drove the rest of the way on Saturday morning. As we entered Thessaloniki, we were s ... read more

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Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In Worl... ... read more