Glorious Greece > weekend in Thessaloniki city
Timeless Thessaloniki is a crossroads of Greek hospitality. Greece’s second biggest city with a large student population and a buzzy, vibrant atmosphere.
Diners clap enthusiastically as gypsies shake tambourines, squeeze accordions and squeal clarinets in Thessaloniki’s covered marketplace, the Mondiano. Dressed in a suit, a grey-haired man takes to the floor. A ruddy faced customer locks [...]
The rich rewards of Thessaloniki
Since most tourists in Greece head for the islands, only a small percentage end up in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city.
There are plenty of logical reasons for this. As an urban center, Thessaloniki is far overshadowed by Athens, the capital, and as a coastal vacation spot, it lacks the whitewashed Mediterranean charm of countless destinations further [...]
Thessaloniki > the Nymph of the Thermaic Gulf
Near the seventh-century Church of Aghia Sophia in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, prides of revelers are filling art-grunge bars like Urban and Pastaflora Darling! on lively Zefxidos Street.
It’s a weeknight, a Monday going on Tuesday, in fact, but it feels like a Saturday. The tsipouro is flowing, the New Pornographers are blaring, and [...]
Thessaloniki > An introduction to the Nymph of Thermaicos
Visitors to Greece tend to be in one of two mind sets. Either an Athens/Acropolis or an islands/beaches kind of mind set. Thessaloniki will shake anyone out of that kind of thinking. Here, modestly tucked away up north, is Greece’s second city. It’s as Greek a city as you are likely to find, but being [...]
