Vergina: place with a tomb (my translation)
On Wednesday we went on a tour of Vergina (not pronounced Vegina but veeer/geee/naa) and it would have been fun if i hadn’t felt like crap. It was shark week (aka period week) and it was jaws (aka the first day)….translation: cramps, bloating, nausea, and all round crankiness. And i was stuck on a bus for most of the whole thing. On a bus with over 40 students with non stop questions and a tour guide with none stop facts.
I was cranky at the students because they had been so noisy the night before that i hadn’t gotten enough sleep. So that combined with jaws = hell for everyone.But despite all that, it was a really cool tour of both places. In visit to Vergina the guide talked about the history of Thessaloniki and we got to visit the burial sites of the kings of Macedon….and it had the tombs of Phillip II , the father of Alexander the great and Alexander IV, the son of Alexander the great. That’s about all i actually remember about the trip to Vergina. And then we had lunch at a tarvena but because of jaws i couldn’t it so i just sat there and absorbed the atmosphere. lol
Then we went on a bus tour of Thessaloniki and the first stop was the church of Hagios Demetrios which was cool. The architecture was sick and there was a lot of cool arches and niches and nooks to hide in and take pictures by.
Then we went to see the white tower of Thessaloniki where we had a very scenic view of the city and got to take awesome pictures.
I got post cards here and this really delicious ice cream that had a French flag on it and made me think of my frenchie Alex, =), but i thought it was a French flag but it was actually a Dutch flag =(. Its the thought that counts here.
I ended up buying post cards at a gift shop there and although i originally intended to keep them I've decided I'm going to mail them out to my friends. So people watch out =)
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