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Thessaloniki
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Name: Thessaloniki Alone
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Author: Jennifer Brandt

A solo travel guide for women 50 and over
By Jennifer Brandt

In Thessaloniki, eating comes first. Fish arrives at Kapani Market in the early morning, Byzantine churches and Roman arches sit among the streets, and the whole city walks the waterfront in the evening.

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Where you might stay

BudgetImperial Plus Urban Smart Hotelbreakfast included
Mid-rangeThe Excelsior (Small Luxury Hotels of the World)small central property with a lounge

Two places to eat alone

Kapani MarketSmall tavernas offer counter seats amid the trading.
Kati Ap’ OlaUnfussy dining that suits a table for one.

SAMPLE

Thessaloniki: A City That Feeds You First and Asks Questions Later

Most visitors to Greece go to Athens, or to an island. Thessaloniki is the third Greece: a working port city of roughly one million people in the metropolitan area, where eating comes first and the whole city walks the waterfront in the evening.
This guide is written for women 50 and over, traveling alone, and it is built around food, walking, history and time at the table.
If Athens is the museum, Thessaloniki is the kitchen. The Ottoman baths, Byzantine churches, Roman arches and university energy are less a set of attractions than the scaffolding of a place that has survived invasion, conquest, genocide and fire, and redesigned itself anyway.
Thessaloniki has no whitewashed cliffside villages and no sunset-viewing crowds. The waterfront has construction cranes beside art installations, the port is a commercial harbor rather than a marina, fish comes into Kapani Market in the early morning, and the cooking answers to locals who have standards.

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PRACTICAL SAMPLE

How Thessaloniki Dining Works

Eating alone is easy here because the food culture is built on meze, small plates ordered a few at a time, and on the ouzeri, where you order a drink and small plates and sit for hours. It answers the question of what to do with a table for one.
You can eat alone in an ouzeri for three hours, and nobody will hurry you.
Go at 6 or 7 p.m. to an ouzeri such as Ouzerie Lola on Agapinou, or to Mezen, the tsipouro-and-meze room on Rogkoti with communal seating. Order an ouzo, tsipouro or beer and three or four small plates (htipiti, saganaki, keftedes), and settle in for two or three hours. A busy room gives you company without conversation.

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Inside this book

Thessaloniki Awaits
A City Shaped by History
Planning Your Escape
The Solo Woman’s Thessaloniki
Where to Stay
Neighborhood by Neighborhood

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Thessaloniki Awaits
A City Shaped by History
Planning Your Escape
The Solo Woman’s Thessaloniki
Where to Stay
Neighborhood by Neighborhood
Days in Thessaloniki
Art, Culture & Creativity
The Pleasures of the Table
Evening & After Dark
Retail Therapy
Beyond the City - Day Trips
Conversation Notes
Practical Matters

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