School Field Trip to Volos

Went to the port city of Volos this weekend. It sits at the base of Mt. Pilio. It's a city of about 200,000 people and has a considerably young population because of the university. However, we only spent a couple of hours in the city. We went to the Archaeological Museum and had lunch. Then we took about a half hour bus ride up Mt. Pilio to stay the night at "The Balcony of Mt. Pilio" which was a small village called Makrinitsa. It was a beautiful village with small cobble stone roads. Our bus couldn't even go all the way into the village, we had to walk to our hotel accommodations. Speaking of the hotel, cutest place ever. It appeared as though it used to be a home and now converted to a hotel. We had a wonderful honeymoon suite that had a gorgeous view of Volos and the harbor. We walked around when we got there and had some coffee and looked around at the small shops. We had dinner later that night at a small taverna [surprise, surprise ;)] and then had made plans to go out not realizing that there was ABSOLUTELY no bar in the village. So instead we got dessert. A delicious chocolate souffle. Stephany and I slept together in our suite, haha. The next morning we had breakfast and went to a mansion in the village. There was a collection of things inside the house. Some clothes, books, pottery, kitchen stuff, beds, a weaving loom, and much more. After the house tour we had some time to relax and do as we pleased in Makrinitsa. Our last stop was another small village about 5 minutes from Makrinitsa and we ate lunch there. We left after about an hour there and headed back for Thessaloniki. I slept the whole way home. Unproductive weekend as far as school work goes though. Thanks for reading :D