Miranda Loves Travelling - My Travel Diary - Page 370

With the Ancient Macedonia tour, we came back to Bulgaria and stayed one night in Bansko. This town is developing as a ski resort. The renovated old houses are used as restaurants and…

 In the Ancient Macedonia tour, the last place we visited in Greece was this Philippi, a town established by Philippos2. Alexander the Great is well known by everybody, but in this tour, his father…

 There are a lot to see in Thassos Island in Greece, but on the day we were there with the Ancient Macedonia tour, we decided to relax on the beach and have a good…

 We stayed 2 nights in Kavala, a town which is in northern Greece. It is small but very lively town. But it was very hot and humid even in the night, and I was…

When we took the boat to go around  Athos peninsula in Greece, we saw one Father with female religious group. He started giving some pieces of bread or something to seagulls flying…

 Mt.Athos in Greece and surrounding peninsula is really a strange place with as many as 20 monasteries and nothing else. On top of that no women can enter this area in this 21st century….

 One day, we walked in Thessaloniki in Greece without the group tour people, just following the suggestion in my guide book. First we went up to Kastro to look over the city and then…

We looked for a restaurant recommended in our guide book for dinner in Thessaloniki in Greece. But it was not there and a woman at kiosk told us it was closed down. I suppose…

 Our Ancient Macedonia tour went into Macedonia region of Greece from Macedonia as a country. Macedonia and Greece are still fighting about this name, so Macedonia Republic is often called officially with the adjective…