I got up a little later today and had a strange conversation with this older guy from Cypress in my room. The previous night I had called him out for hating on Albanians - he said he hated them because his country is being invaded by Turks, but that of course misses the fact that even if they were Turkish, they'd have nothing to do with the conflict in northern Cypress. Then there's the bigger issue of how Albanians are absolutely not Turkish in any way and have existed as a completely unrelated ethnic group for many centuries prior to any Turkic presence in Europe, but I digress. He approached me this morning and did a backhanded lecture about how people and "especially ladies" aren't going to want to hang out with me if my clothes smell really terrible, obviously signalling that he thought my suitcase was stinking up the room. He gave me a bottle of cologne, I think in part to apologize for the previous night's argument, and tried to smooth things over. I didn't smell anything but made an effort to clean up - it certainly wouldn't have been unheard of for my clothes to smell terrible, though it seemed strange since I had just washed it all. Later that evening, he admitted that he had then discovered it was actually his clothes that smelled terrible and that I wasn't responsible. Weird guy.

After making the rest of my eggs I went off to see the White Tower. It's the most iconic landmark in Thessaloniki and was built 800 years ago. Today it's a museum about the history of the city, and each level has a different theme exhibit. The issue is that the signage inside is entirely in Greek. They do provide an audio guide, and though I hate audio guides, I decided to put up with it since there was no other info on English. I played it at double speed but the information it was providing often didn't line up with the exhibits that currently existed and the whole experience was much less informative than it should have been. I think the best move would've been to Google translate the text. I did learn that the city was once the only majority Jewish city in the world and that they had a hugely influential Jewish community up until the German occupation, which was interesting.

I met up with Oscar a little later - he wanted to check out the archeological museum, but it was closed for some reason. Instead we wandered around on the waterfront for a bit and then found a battleship that had been renovated as a museum. It was only two euro to enter so we walked around inside it for a little while - didn't look like very much fun to have lived there. Since he's lived in Greece before he knee what to look for in a restaurant and managed to find some pretty good food for quite cheap. He also ordered a bottle of ouzo, this strange anise flavored liquor they love here. It's very strongly flavored but not terrible.

I'm meeting up with Lindsey tomorrow morning for a walking tour and there are still a few museums I want to cross off here. We'll see how many I get to.