Links

• The US Consulate in Thessaloniki maintains a useful site.

• Learn to Speak Greek: Greek Language Books, Programs and Courses

• Wikipedia has an entry on Thessaloniki.

• The Φοιτητική Λέσχη (student cafeteria) at Aristotle University posts its weekly menu as a PDF file [in Greek].

• Mac-heads may be interested in the user-created Greek localization of OS X. Greece has a Mac user group [in Greek], as does Thessaloniki [in Greek].

• Tales from a Small Planet, a resource site created for expatriates, has a collection of useful reports from Americans living in Greece, including Thessaloniki-specific ones.

• O brave new world! Inexplicably, you can order pizza online in Thessaloniki. It's pretty good, too.

• Sviato-Vvedensky Convent in Russia hosts the helpful Church Calendar Resource Page, whih includes New/Old Calendar calculations and keyword searches for determining a saint's feast day.

• Forthnet, a greek ISP, offers street-maps of Attica (the Athens area) and Thessaloniki with useful locations marked. Installing the Google Earth application is a fantastic way to get a perspective on the city—much better than a normal street-map. Downloading the Google Earth file for our City Map will let you see the points of interest we've marked from within Google Earth.

• Forthnet also offers a boat-schedule–search for a given date and route that claims to be virtually comprehensive, and in many cases offers links to book online a ticket for the itinerary you have found.

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