The Rotunda in Thessaloniki is a really striking building that’s hard to miss. It wasn’t even on my list of things to see — I just happened to walking around the city, and saw this:
Well, I think it’s about time to pack it in and go home. I mean, what’s the point of continuing this trip now? It’s peaked. The odds of me eating anything as mind-blowing as the gyro I just had from Gyros Aristotelous are pretty much zero.
Sure, you could eat a healthy breakfast. Or you could eat a slice of bougatsa, a pastry that finds a sweet, creamy filling wrapped in crispy phyllo dough. It’s served with an extra sprinkling of powdered sugar and cinnamon on top. It’s basically dessert for breakfast, and it’s great.
McDonald’s in Greece might have one of the most boring menus of any McDonald’s in the world — it’s pretty much exclusively the usual suspects. Oddly enough, they don’t even have the Greek Mac that I tried in Cyprus.