26th January 2023. Tricky post to write, this one, as you’ll see at the end. I’d booked a train for the four hour trip from Thessaloniki to Athens at lunchtime, which took out most of a whole day but at least meant arriving in the capital in daylight, and gave us time to explore the… Continue reading TRAIN BEERS
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MY GREAT BIG GREEK CRAFT NIGHT
February 2023. I can’t profess much enthusiasm for this post, but as this site is legally tagged “Beer and Pubs” (which stops me accessing my own blog on train journeys with wowser Trans Pennine) I ought to mention the bars. There aren’t a lot of them in Thessaloniki, unless they’re all in the suburbs. In… Continue reading MY GREAT BIG GREEK CRAFT NIGHT
THESSALONIKI (II) – CATS, CHURCHES, COFFEE, CRUMBLING BUILDINGS
February 2023. Only two days in Thessaloniki, and Mrs RM quickly reduced that to one with a trip to see the monasteries at Meteora on the Saturday, so we had to squeeze all the culture, craft beer and cats into one day. Some people travel to tick bars, some football grounds, others go purely so… Continue reading THESSALONIKI (II) – CATS, CHURCHES, COFFEE, CRUMBLING BUILDINGS
A LETTER FROM THE THESSALONIANS (I)
February 2023. The only real question is “How many posts will it take to cover six (6) nights in Greece“. Pubmeister, you’ll recall, knocked off his trip in a lone issue that seemed woefully short on kebab reviews. Let’s start with the map. We’d both “done” Greece. Corfu, Crete and a smart southern port on… Continue reading A LETTER FROM THE THESSALONIANS (I)
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