Day 8’s mission. Get to Thessaloniki. We woke up and headed to the bus station which was closed. Every time we go to that blasted station it is either closed, or it is open and no one is there! But they did have a schedule on the window which informed us that our bus left at 15:15. Fabulous. That meant we had 5 hours to kill. We went to our regular café and spent some time there. Then I just went to a bench overlooking the Gulf, “people watched”, ate the biggest donut of my life, and read my book. At one point, I jumped off a wall onto a stone bench where I almost landed on a snake! I screamed bloody murder. Andrew was still at the café so only the storekeepers heard me. I flipping despise snakes. Thankfully it just slithered away in a crack between the bench and the wall. I am pretty sure that I did feel my heart skip a beat. Note to self: look before I jump. As 15:00 got closer, we decided to re-locate closer to the bus station. We bought some popsicles because it was super duper hot outside, and a Lamborghini pulled up. Whoa baby! Look at that thing. Then a man in a fancy suit strolled out with his stylin sunglasses. Andrew: He is SOO a leader of the Mob. We then continued to make up this big extravagant story about this unknown character as he made his rounds through the restaurants. As this story continued on, a man who works at the bus station finally came and sold us our tickets. Saweet. Finally got our tickets. I then went to throw away my popsicle wrapper away (and I got a tattoo with it!... YES!!!) and returned to my previous spot. I looked at Andrew and the ticket in his hand and I almost had another heart attack… WHERE IS MY TICKET! My brain was processing in incalculable rates. I then realized I threw my ticket away with my wrappers.... crap! I ran across the street to dig through the rubbish to find my ticket. Phew. Andrew just looked at me with an “I can’t believe you just did that” look. Hey! At least I remembered where I put it! Chuckles. Our bus then came and the ticket master told me a town where we had to make a transfer. Okie dokie. We were on the bus, step 1 down.
We had no idea how long this bus ride was but we learned from a nice Greek man that it would take more than 5 hours. Time to get comfy. Once again the Greek landscape was spectacular. Andrew listened to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack while I listened to Mamma Mia. There were multiple stops along the way and one seemed to be running long so Andrew decided to go and grab some food real fast. I had a Jeff de’ja’vu in Regensburg on the way to Nuremberg. As he was in the store many different scenarios were running through my mind and I was trying to decide what I would do it the bus left him. As the bus driver boarded the bus and started the engine, Andrew came sprinting like a mad man out of the store and onto the bus right before the door closed. Phew. I gave him a look to which he had no response for. 2 words: Close Call. With the food he had purchased, he also bought a bottle of milk. Andrew loves milk and can pound it like no other. He twisted off the cap and had the expression of a little kid with a lollipop. He took one giant swig and his face spread with pain. This is yogurt! It looks like milk.. but it does NOT taste or smell like it. In small words in English, it says fermented milk. Fermented milk?! Who does that? He was really torked and it was hilarious. We then were stuck in some sort of traffic and didn’t get into Thessaloniki until between 22:00-23:00. Hmmm. Alright. Well I had an address of a hotel that I found on the internet that was really close to the train station, so we got a cab and headed toward there.
The Rex, with its neon lights flashing on what looked to be an abandoned building, our hotel. It was one of those things that really wasn’t funny at all.. but you had to laugh. We decided it looked like a disguised brothel. We walked in the entrance to a shabby looking office where the man gave us our room key. We were already scared. We rode the elevator up to the third floor and entered our room…302. By far, the worst place we have EVER stayed in. I wouldn’t say I was legitimately scared… but definitely uneasy. Andrew and I then decided to make some videos of our sketch hotel room and went to check out the bathrooms and shower. I decided that hell would freeze over before I took a shower there. I wouldn’t even touch the floor without my shoes on and made seldom movements. There were some unidentified substances on the carpet, and I would prefer them to be unidentified. Like most of the hostels/hotels in Greece, we had a tv where we watched part of the Green Mile. But it was too serious so we broke out The Office. I have officially become addicted to that show. I had always watched it after Bones, but was never watched it religiously. Before we went to sleep, I decided to barricade the door with chairs and other objects so if an intruder was to break in, at least I would hear him. Haha. Andrew just shook his head at me. It was time for bed in which I slept horribly. The next morning’s agenda was to head to the train station to on our first leg to get back to Germany!
Yes, I was scared. Chuckles.
We knew that we had been safe in Delphi because "they" did not know where we were located. If anyone wants to leave Greece by train, they must go to Thessaloniki so we had to be prepared for any encounters that lay in our future. We made some contacts with the Mob Man in Delphi. He gave us some contacts through Bulgaria, Serbia, and Croatia just in case we needed reinforcements, he ensured us our safety. We'll see if he will follow through with his promises.
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