So now here I was alone in the great white city that was Athens, I would be here on my own for four days. So when I left my tour group that afternoon I headed into my hotel and dropped my stuff off in my room and headed out to do some exploring. I charged out into the darkening streets and by sheer fluke I'm sure, managed to run right into the famous Athens flea markets, which I had been longing to visit. Unfortunately they were almost about to close up so I cont...

The next day we all packed up out stuff, an eternally difficult task for me as I had bought quite a bit and had made myself quite at home in my hotel room. I then went down to breakfast and exchanged email addresses and contact details with my fellow tour mates, before climbing on the bus for the last time and heading for the tomb of Phillip of Macedon at Verginia. We arrived at an impressive mound with a concrete entrance and as we walked inside I noticed that t...

We headed for Pella, the city in which Alexander the Great was born, I had been looking forward to this the whole trip. Again we went in the small museum, in which was housed some beautiful Macedonian gold, before entering the site. Pella was not the most grand or impressive site, but as at Mycenae, felt like I was walking in the footsteps of greatness. I was actually walking down a street that Alexander had walked down, or ridden down on his great stead Ucephelu...

Edessa was quite a drive and we finally reached it and were presented with a tacky looking little market place and what looked like man made falls. I couldn't help thinking, Is that it? It wasn't we were taken down a slope and presented with the real falls which were breath taking. I actually got to walk along a ledge and stand right under them. The noise was deafening as the cool clear water rushed past at great speed some of it landing on me, cooling me off as ...

We woke up early yet again and it was a pleasure not to have to pack up hurriedly as I had been doing every other morning. I went and ate a nice breakfast and then got back on the bus. We were off to the Prehistoric settlement of Kastoria. This settlement is 7000 years old and was found partly in the lake. We visited the small museum of prehistoric artefacts and then made our way to the lake side reconstruction. We walked on wooded poles mashed into the ground w...