Further Adventures in Thessaloniki

The Arch of Galerius, up close. As you can probably tell by the name and the arch itself, this is a Roman item- there aren't a whole lot of pre-Roman things in Thessaloniki proper, to my knowledge. (There is some cool stuff outside of Thessaloniki. More on that later.)
The neat thing about Thessaloniki is the large population of non-Greek people, so there are mosques there. More so than in Athens, at least. This is probably due to the location of the city in Macedonia.

Wait, wait wait, I hear you say. What is this about Macedonia? Isn't that another country? I thought you were staying in Greece?

Yeah. It gets a bit confusing. When I refer to Macedonia, I may be referring to one of three places.
1.Ancient Macedonia, home of Alexander the Great, Philip II, etc. Debatably a part of Greece.
2. The country of Macedonia. Definitely not a part of Greece.
3. Macedonia, the part of Greece.

So, we were in Macedonia. And, we decided, we wanted to go to Vergina. This involved getting up early in the morning and taking a bus to Veroia, and from there catching a bus to Vergina. Which was all well and good. Until we made the critical mistake of decided that Veroia was in the Chalkidiki.

What? you ask. Caroline, how could you make such a mistake?

Well, I don't know. It was early in the morning. Etc.

They have a beautiful grasp of English. Beautiful.
So, we went to the Chalkidiki bus station, which involved:

1. Walking to the train station.

2. Catching a bus to the main KTEL station.

3. Catching a bus to a random point in the middle of Thessaloniki.

4. Catching a bus to the Chalkidiki KTEL station. Which is where, of course, we looked at the map and realized that Veroia is in Macedonia, not in Chalkidiki.

Bus trip #5! Don't worry, we got there eventually...