Days 1 and 2 Revisit - trip to Thessaloniki

Day 1 and 2 Revisit - June 6 and 7.


For these "revisit" posts, I am cleaning up the text, adding maps and pictures, and adding links (primarily to Wiki) for background information.


Day 1 and 2 were travel days: DFW to Madrid Spain to Athens Greece to Thessaloniki Greece by plane; then bus to the hotel.

Aliki, our guide

Our bus

Things were mostly smooth. Customs surprised me, we went through customs in Madrid even though we did not have our checked bags. Then we had to go through security to make the flight to Athens. Not a very long wait.

The layover at Athens was a bit longer. Picked up our checked luggage. Found that the Richardson's and the Folkmeyer's luggage made it to Spain but not to Athens. It will follow us later. (Post-trip update: they got it after one day.)

We met our tour guide, Aliki and our bus driver Spyros when we got to Thessaloniki, Greece. They will be taking good care of us. On the bus on the way to the hotel we ran into a large group of soccer fans protesting the fact that their team was being changed into a different league. We had to wait for about 10 minutes while they moved across the street.

Hotel Capsis is very nice, the rooms are probably typical for Europe, a bit small by American standards.

Soccer Protest

Next: Day 3 Part 1

Approx Miles for Day 2: Air 6620, Bus 14

Dale's Pics for Day 2: here

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