Walking around the city.

When we have visitors from out of town it is the best of chances to walk around the city and go sightseeing.
This time it was my niece Ellie who studies Architecture and was very willing to have a look around the city sights and buildings. And Thessaloniki has a great variety of architectural samples.
On Friday afternoon we visited...
Yedi Kule (Seven Towers)

 Elias the Prophet Church 

 Alatza Imaret

In it there was an Art installation and exhibition by Tina Karageorgi which was impressive.

 It was time for a break so we decided to try desserts from a very old pastry shop called Dorkada. I had ekmek kadaif which was divine!

 Then we moved on and ate our desserts while sipping Turkish demli cay at Prigipos cafe!

 My son and my niece enjoying their tea!

 Back home they made hamburgers and I made fruit salad!

 On Saturday morning after a quick breakfast with pear and cheese muffins

we girls went on a city tour again. First a short stop on top of the Old Hamam cafe next to

  Bey Hamam which has a lovely view of the Hamam.

 It's great spotting beautiful buildings at the city centre especially when friends live there!

 We then went to Bit Pazar and looked around the antiques and second hand things. I tried not to buy anything as I just recently decluttered the house and there is not any space for anything.

 We then had a look at the Roman Forum,

 we passed outside Koumbi coffee and crafts cafe where there was yarn bombing

but we decided to have coffee at Frideriko agapi mou cafe which has beautiful antiques and is dog friendly!

 This is Oddie, another customer's dog!

Then we did some shopping mainly clothes and finally met the men and had lunch.

You can't really finish a good day if you don't have ouzo and appetisers at Ellinikon Restaurant which was once again very good!

 We walked back home spotting big bubbles at the sea front!

 In the evening we made some chocolate and marshmallows dessert (s'mores dip)

Barca really enjoyed this visit!

May 1st long weekend

Thank you friends and followers for your comments in my last blogpost. It seems others too feel likewise!
So I will just go on ...my way!
May 1st was off school of course and since it was a Friday we took the chance to leave the city.
On Friday we went to my brother's beach house.
On the way I worked on the Stitch Enigma I want to take part in. You can find all about it in the side of my blog.

It was a glorious day!
When we arrived at their place you couldn't really tell if it was Clean Monday as there were kites in the sky...

...or if it was Easter as people were barbecueing everywhere...

...or if it was summer as people were at the beach bars and some brave ones were even swimming!

We walked around...
spotting beautiful flowers...

I even found a gorgeous stone filled with quartz....

Of course the men barbecued under our scrutiny (and Barca's scrutiny of course!)

Those sausages especially the yellow ones with chicken and cheese were terrific!

The views of fields covered in poppies were wonderful!

And some had to be gathered!

Afterwards we went to our beach house to enjoy the sunset...

and the moon.

The next day we did some house chores like putting an old coffee table from the city house in its place

but we also walked the beach enjoying the view of the snowcovered Olympus opposite us......

We of course collected some sea glass....

We also found lots of beautifully painted stones that probably tourists left behind.

But there was a guard guarding them so we didn't take any!

Beautiful flowers were everywhere at the beach!

and around in the fields.

Barca made a new friend...a huge gentle giant stray dog we were almost ready to take with us....

But we had to return to the city and this is what we returned to, another gorgeous sunset in Thessaloniki.

Sunday was beautiful too.
The sky was painted in white brush strokes...

We were hungry and we sat at To Elliniko! It was great as usual!We had some steamed mussels and some caramelised mushrooms along with tsipouro of course.

One of my mussels was pregnant!

It was a great weekend...when weekends are like that I feel like a tiny flower in this world, a happy little flower...

Good night!