In the morning I was surprisingly not tired at all. I think for once I was caught up on all my sleep and had gotten some decent rest. After getting ready, George and the guy from Hong Kong left at the same time as me, George going to work and the guy from Hong Kong taking the bus with me to the metro station.
I didn't have any issues getting on the train and the train ride was surprisingly uneventful. I had heard horror stories about how bad the train system was in Greece and that I was crazy to take the cheap train to Thessaloniki...but people must just like to complain, it wasn't any worse than the trains in Italy.
In Thessaloniki my host, John, and another CouchSurfer, Leonard, met me at the train station. We took a taxi back to John's house, and I dropped off all of my stuff. We talked for a while, and then Leonard offered to show me around the city a bit since he had been there for 3 full days and knew it quite well. We walked around for a while, ate a gyros, and then walked back to John's place.
We took it easy back there and I played two chess games against Leonard. The first game I crushed him, but the second game he came back and beat me. Sadly we didn't get to play a tie breaker before he left the next morning.
At 9pm or so we all headed out for dinner and had a plethora of food. John is vegetarian, so most of it didn't have any meat, but I had a side of souvlaki (meat on a stick). We ate and talked until midnight, and then took a taxi back up the hill to John's place.
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