Michael scored us a quaint little beach hotel in Thessaloniki. We stood on hallowed ground where St. Peter wrote letters to the Thessalonians and preached the Christian doctrine of one God and the savior his son. Many religious roadside worship sites dot the roadside. The number of small churches almost outnumbers residents on some of the small towns we drive through. The Greek Orthodox Church We went into hade many gold framed pictures of Saints. I observed several people go up to these pictures and kiss them with their lips. I had to see if they merely looked as if they were kissing the frame but sure enough there were multiple lip marks on the glass. Germophobes wouldn’t make it in a Greek Orthodox religion.
Also want to thank Michael for supplying me with super literature to read on the trip. The travel on trains and planes is made so much more peasant with the “kindle” and the biographical novel, Unbroken written by the same author who wrote Seabiscut.
Wish we had more time to spend there. It was fun eating at a variety of places for one meal in that city even with the domestic abuse scene right out our dinning window!
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