A Day with the Thessalonians

"If you guide without a permit, I will personally fuck you up"

                  -Spiros Arion(aka The Golden Greek") 

 We have booked a tour of the city today. We are picked up by our affable "guide" Simon who immediately explains that he is not a registered guide and will be fined 50000 euros if he is caught imparting any information about the city to us!

Simon must don various clever disguises in order to dodge the Tourist Police.




We start the tour by visiting the White Tower,

formally drenched in the blood of decaffeinated Janissaries, but then painted white by a volunteer. We walk to the top in low spiral passage,

where I manage to graze my head, adding a bit of original colour to the edifice.






We then visit various churches, buildings, former prisons and monasteries.
One of Simon's better disguises






Tonight we enjoy a lavish meal but as usual eat to excess 





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