We started out the morning by going down to Thessaloniki’s shopping district to a camera store. We were proud of ourselves because we figured out how to pay to park down there. We had take our license plate number and our parking location number into a store on the corner and pay them to park. They logged us into a system used by the meter maids. No ticket for us!
The battery charger for Rick’s camera wasn’t working. The camera store had the charger we needed and we were back in business. We had some breakfast while we were downtown after getting the charger.
Then we went to what is described in our guide book as Alexander the Great country. We started out by going to Dion, which is the town at the base of Mt Olympus. We left from downtown and the drive took us about an hour. We could see the mountain after driving for about a half an hour. It was the tallest mountain, it was snow capped, and we could see all the Gods just lounging around, eating bonbons (just checking if anyone actually reads this).
Once in Dion we drove around and actually left the center of town to head out towards the grape fields. There we found a little church at the base of the mountain. At this point the peak of the mountain was in the clouds.
We went back into Dion and went to the museum which had a lot of artifacts which weren’t really that interesting to us except for this nice floor mosaic.
After the museum we went to lunch in Dion and talked to a nice couple from Belgium.
Next stop was Vergina, the location of the tomb of Phillip II, father of Alexander the Great. We took back roads there and stopped a couple of times to take pictures of Mt Olympus. Here are my best pictures.
On arriving in Vergina we stopped to get Rick a coffee. Then we had trouble finding the actual tombs and almost left Vergina without seeing them. Luckily we didn’t because it was an excellent exhibit. Unfortunately we couldn’t take pictures. Here are some images I found on the internet.
By the time we left it was 6:30. One thing I haven’t mentioned it that it stays light here until 9. We got back to the apartment around 8.
Here is a map showing Thessaloniki, Dion, and Vergina.
