![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lb1. Archaelogical Museum of Thessaloniki: full of gold gravegods. Seriously. Full.
2. Heat continues most unpleasant. I will not be climbing while I'm here, even if I can find a wall. This annoys me, as I can feel my arm muscles starting to melt.
3. Have internet. But chat programmes blocked. Alas.
4. Eventually I will investigate the old part of the town and perhaps an Orthodox church or two. There are two other museums at least here that I have yet to locate and explore, and a bath complex and a Roman-period forum, which I would quite like to have a look at.
5. Can now say, "How old are you?" and "Where are you from?" in Greek. Fluency, it is not. Yet. Phonemes interestingly different. A lot of ways to write the sound "eee".
6. Hope maybe to get a couple of minutes' run in at some point during next week. Though going faster than a walk is possibly not the cleverest idea ever, for me: temperature twice the average at home at least until after midnight.
7. Greek food puts oregano in everything. Pasta, rice, chicken, chips, pork, meatballs, tomato - everything.
8. Will attempt to describe adventures in Thessaloniki in more detail, but only if anyone is interested.
2. Heat continues most unpleasant. I will not be climbing while I'm here, even if I can find a wall. This annoys me, as I can feel my arm muscles starting to melt.
3. Have internet. But chat programmes blocked. Alas.
4. Eventually I will investigate the old part of the town and perhaps an Orthodox church or two. There are two other museums at least here that I have yet to locate and explore, and a bath complex and a Roman-period forum, which I would quite like to have a look at.
5. Can now say, "How old are you?" and "Where are you from?" in Greek. Fluency, it is not. Yet. Phonemes interestingly different. A lot of ways to write the sound "eee".
6. Hope maybe to get a couple of minutes' run in at some point during next week. Though going faster than a walk is possibly not the cleverest idea ever, for me: temperature twice the average at home at least until after midnight.
7. Greek food puts oregano in everything. Pasta, rice, chicken, chips, pork, meatballs, tomato - everything.
8. Will attempt to describe adventures in Thessaloniki in more detail, but only if anyone is interested.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2010-08-19 01:33 pm (UTC)Do you like oregano?
Many ways to write "eee" = enhanced squeeage opportunities.
My only Greek words are "evkaristo" and "pagotoh." I always like to cover the basics first.
no subject
Date: 2010-08-19 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-20 03:05 pm (UTC)Hello, thank you, please, sorry. These are good words to learn in any language.
("Synkomi, thein milao elladika" is "Sorry, I don't speak Greek." Useful phrase.)
no subject
Date: 2010-08-20 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-20 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-20 03:23 pm (UTC)I became fond of dill under similar circumstances. Still not my fave, but I no longer avoid it.