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BikeAbout Log

At 6:00 PM March 6, 1998
Sunrise (local): 6:57 a.m. Sunset (local): 6:24 p.m.	Weather 65°F
Traveled Since Last Dispatch 3 mi / 5 km Cumulative Total 3071 mi / 4946 km	Lat: 40° 40' 14" N Lon: 22° 49' 41" E Elev: 56 ft / 17 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Thessaloniki ()
Where We're Staying: Hotel Acropol ()
Places We Visited: the back of a bus, the Turkish/Greek border, White Tower the churches of Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum, the studios of "Jammin"
Featured Site: Archaeological Museum
Person of the Day: the hosts of "Jammin"
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: Greek salad; Breakfast: spinach pastries (spanakopita) and cheese pastries (tyropita), coffee/tea; Lunch: not today; Dinner: chicken soup, Greek salad, eggplant salad, lasagna, stewed pork with peas and rice (all of it dripping with grease and oil); Olive count: 1829
Word of the Day: "Kalimera" () means "Good morning" in Greek.
Tech Fact of the Day: the Greek alphabet: Flat Count (Cumulative): 21; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 26


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