What at first moment seems to be a canyon of concrete with astonishing hot air in the streets and couple of hectically people, predominantly and surprisingly shows itself as green, airy and relaxing streets.

When you are passing downtown Thessalonica with its many boulevards and its fashionable shops, bars and restaurants next to the main road at the waterfront, you will find a modern, very youthful, student urban architecture, which is only partially reflected in the sculptures and monuments along the road.

During our first excursion around Sithonia, the second finger of Halkidiki, we did not really had the chance to see Mount Athos on the third finger at the orthodox peninsula of same name.

The meeting with Sylke was quickly leading to the question of walking routes on Halkidiki within our project work.

Our discovery tour along the peninsula coastline of Sithonia, which is also called the second finger of Halkidiki, had led us to the first beautiful bays.

After a short break at the shelter Pigadouli which we also used to fill up our water bottles, we went along the now steeper ascent, continued towards Spilios Agapitos and the summits of Olympus.

Around noon we arrived at the parking lot in Priona at 1,020 meters. Since Andrea and John wanted to take care of their spring water, we decided to hike alone to the Refuge "S. Agapitos", one of the mountain huts to stay on Olympus Mountain at about 2,100 meters.

To further exploration of the surrounding areas with the final target Mount Olymp we left Rapsani together with Andrea and John towards the highlands. First we went through the vineyards of Rapsani until we reached Krania, on asphalt roads steadily climbing.

Some first articles and blog information about Rapsani and its Rapsani Olympus Camper Stop we had already added online few weeks ago, now we decided to make further explorations in the area and in the Olympus National Park.

The thermal baths of Pozar Loutraki are located to the Northwest of Aridaia in the Pella Prefecture. The hot water springs reaching the foothills of the mountains Kaimakzalan, just a few kilometers from the border Greece - Macedonia away.

As part of our exploring to establish Camper places we were driven to the site of the fire station at the Canyon next to Dursunbey Cayi, an idyllic recreational area with guest houses on 800 meters above sea level.

Our first day's route took us along the more shallow zones of Dursunbey Cayi which had changed, due to heavy rains and the consequent erosion of minerals, its color in these days.

World Exhibitions or Expos's allow sharing new inventions, methods and ideas at international level for more than one hundred years. They provide a unique platform for international dialogue, public diplomacy and international cooperation.

The ride to the bus station in Antalya and the postponement of our appointments had provided for a stopover on the EXPO 2016 site, so we got the chance to take some initial photographs and the first short blog report.

The historical Houses of Sahmanbahce is one of the first council housing projects held by Ottoman and Turks. The project was initiated by Musa. Irfan Bey, Director of Evcaf, in the beginning of the 20th century. It was completed in three phases and consisted of 72 houses.

During our explorations in the National Park at Olympus we encountered, among other things, a variety of well presented cairns, also called stone staves, on a small forest area.

Another excursion brought us to the Alara River, where we met a shrubbery path referring to an "inn" that could arouse our interest.

We had learned Houssem Belloum by a friend during the tourism fair EMITT in Istanbul and since then contacted each other now and then by mail.

Once more the author Wolfgang Dorn (see articles in the portal) traveled to Turkey with a small group of culturally interested people, another option to meet with him.

Meanwhile, other camper guests, some of our dear readers already know, have arrived at our private space (don´t want to use Camper Stop so far) in Alanya: Sven and Martina from Switzerland with their Peppo, a self-built Dodge RAM 3500 camper.