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Friday, March 30th, 2007Today was the best trip yet. We drove from Athens to Corinth. We drove mostly north to Northwest to go up to Thessaloniki, but Corinth is west of Athens. It’s always been an important location since it lies on a narrow strip of land between the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea. It is a [...]
Thessaloniki & Thermopylae
Friday, March 30th, 2007Yesterday we visited the museum in Thessaloniki which mainly focuses on archaelogical finds of Macedonia (now I’m wondering what the difference is between “Macedon” and “Macedonia”–I’ll have to find out.) It was a day of mostly driving as we made our way back to Athens although stopping at the site of Thermopylae. This was the [...]
Greece-Meteorea, King Phillip of Macedon, Berea
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007I’m not sure I’ve spelled that right. On Tuesday, March 28, after visiting the museum which contains artifacts from Delphi. We continued northeast to Meteorea. It is the location of seven monastaries dating from the 14-16th centuries where items precious to the Catholic church were protected from the Ottoman Turks. We visited the [...]
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