Today Dave and I drove out of the city to Mt. Olympus National Park, about 90 minutes from Thessaloniki: you need to go northwest, then southwest around the northern end of the Thermaic Gulf (north end of the Aegean Sea).
I’ll write more about our hike in Mt Olympus National Park later on, but Dave and I have really enjoyed playing the “license plate game” here in Eastern Europe. This was at a rest stop on Route 1 , the main highway between Thessaloniki and Athens. Lots of cars from Serbia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine on … Read more
We had a fun first full day in Greece today!
We picked up the kids on campus, then visited the nearby IKEA for a late breakfast and picked up groceries at Lidl.
Then we headed out to a lovely beach down the coast from Thessaloniki, near a town called Lea Irakleia. We enjoyed driving through the olive groves, vineyards, and pomegranate orchards to get there.
We finished with an early dinner at a restaurant in the town of Thermi called “??? ?????” or “GRN Thermi”: gyros and souvlaki.
We got to our AirBnB at about 1am last night and crashed hard! Woke up to this lovely view, though…I could sit here all day and just stare at the water Heading over soon to pick up Tim from his dorm — he was charged with finding us a beach to hang out at this … Read more
So close!! And yes, we are TIRED! By the time we land in Thessaloniki, it will have been about 27 hours from when we left our house on Tuesday. #europeanadventure #thessaloniki #greece
When you have a TEN hour layover in Munich, how can you not hit a Biergarten??
Greetings from the Königlicher Hirschgarten, where we had schnitzel and beer for a late lunch. There was a deer field nearby that you could visit.
#europeanadventure
Off to our next adventure…heading over to see Tim!
Denver just started accommodating Airbus A380s earlier this spring and we are so excited to get to fly on one to Munich…
#timseuropeanadventure #thessaloniki #greece
Story time! I promised a bit about our AirBnB…I had to wait to go into detail until we resolved an issue. It’s been resolved to our satisfaction, so here we go!
Enjoy a sampling of some of the fun signs and foods I saw on our trip. The list of sodas is from the menu at a McDonalds in Exeter. Note there’s only one soda option that isn’t “Zero”. I was intrigued that even the sodas with sugar actually still have some artificial sweetener of some sort in it to keep the calories and sugars down.
Greenwich, the home of the Royal Observatory.
We arrived rather late, with only 90 minutes until we’d have to catch the last City Cruises boat back towards central London. There was only one thing I wanted to do in Greenwich: stand on the Prime Meridian. The map geek in me was thrilled to be able to put one foot in each hemisphere for a few photos. (Having taught cartography before, I fully understand how arbitrary and Imperialist the line is, but I digress.)