The morning after the farewell dinner of our Balkan Odyssey trip, we hired a car to drive us over the border from Skopje, Macedonia to Thessaloniki, Greece - about a 2.5 hour ride. Compared to the relative spaciousness and slow pace of Skopje, Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, is crowded and bustling. I was struck by a visual difference as well: Skopje has very few graffiti or street art, while Thessaloniki is loaded with them.
A striking example was in a doorway just outside our hotel.
This detail of a fresco in the Museum of Byzantine Culture strikes the same mood as the street art.
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