Our first day I was naturally keen to see everything there was to see! We picked up Theano, then headed out to take in the sights of Katerini.
Our first stop was the beach some ancient ruins a music shop a
salt farm.
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No, for real. A commercial setup, with big machinery...
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... and I presume an evaporation pond ...
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... and a giant mound of salt.
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Nearby was a delightfully dilapidated house -- the orange roof tiling is ubiquitous.
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And there were flamingoes! But they were way-the-hell over there in the middle of a mudflat... Nonetheless, here are some blurry blowups to prove that's really what they were. (I walked a fair way out onto the mud, and used my camera zoom to the max, and managed at least to satisfy myself that that's what I was looking at.)
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