Thessaloniki

Ok so another city down on the list. I just spent 5 hours walking around Thessaloníki in the snow. You got that right in the snow. It was a bit chilly, but walking several miles will help keep you warm. There are some amazing spots here in Thess, but they are all right in the middle of the city and it kind of breaks that whole lost in ancient times exploration mentality. I visited a couple museums here on is the Byzantine Cultural Museum which was amazing. It is basically an entire museum filled with Byzantine Christian art, sculpture, architecture everything. that is a big shift from where I have been in the middle east. The other was the Thessaloníki Archeology Museum which was also cool. Lots of sculpture and other amazing artifacts all the way back to prehistory. The links for the pictures are below someday I might actually get around to labeling them better but the stuff from the museum I tried to get the description in with the pic. Well the snow is still coming down here and I have a couple more hours to kill before my train to Istanbul so time to pull out a good book and curl up on a not so comfortable chair. Anyone got some hot Coco.

Thess 1
Thess 2