Borders-Greece & Bulgaria

Thermi

berries the color of rust

mama dog with her young dog pups

view of Thessaloniki and sea

view to the sea

Toumba Thermi (an Iron Age tell)

Xanthi

cemetery with a view

preserved exterior wall painting

Didymotico-from its castle

Dimini

Dimini, near to Sesklo, is the best known Late Neolithic (roughly 5000BC) settlement of Greece. Its polychrome, matte painted wares enjoyed wide circulation.

Dimini was a settlement with enclosure walls

Chourmouziadis's ceramic kiln

Dimini also had a very long lived Bronze Age/Mycenean period-here's a tholos from above

Sesklo

Sesklo is pretty THE Middle Neolithic (roughly began 6800BC) site of Greece (and of course Thessaly), known primarily for its red-on-white style. Excavated since the turn of the century, it has amazing preservation.

Sesklo B with a Mycenean cist grave in the foreground

high walls preserved in Sesklo A

Pozar

next to Aridea and on the border of Greece and FYROM are the volcanic hot springs, mountains and snowmelt of the town of Pozar

Ioannina-Island

an island without a name in the middle of a lake

from the ferry boat

Ioannina-Lakeside