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During the 2 week stay in Greece we traveled to a few locations in order to visit the places the apostle Paul stayed during his ministry.

Locations: Thessaloniki, Philippi, Beroea, Meteora, and Corinth.

The records of apostle Paul’s ministry are in Acts, especially around chapters 16 – 17.

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki apartments

 

Ancient City of Philippi

The ancient city of Philippi was captured and fortified by Philip II, king of Macedonia in 356BC, when the Krenides were threatened by the Thracians and sought his aid. He named the city after himself.

 

 

This is a cool theater that amplified the speaker’s voice just by standing on the square box. It was loud enough for everyone to hear, and I mean just by speaking normally.

 

 

 

 

River where Lydia was baptised in Philippi

 

 

Beroea

This is the hallway of the an institution for Greek Orthodox fathers in Beroea. Apostle Paul lived here for about three months. 

Meteora

Meteora is a group of hills on which many monasteries are built. Fleeing saints long long ago hid on top of these hills from persecution.

Within the monastery

Corinth

At Corinth Canel, which was caved for ships to pass through, avoiding the hassel of going the extremely long route to the other shore. Julius Caesar courted this idea again in 44BC while the first consideration ever made for this was in 602BC.

Ancient city of Corinth where apostle Paul spent his time preaching. Sorry for squinting sour face, it was too sunny and I didn’t have sunglasses!

Behind me was the market place where apostle Paul preached. Before me (not in the photo) was where he was tried but no guilt was found on him. Sometimes I still feel the experience of being there is very surreal. Just imagine how even more surreal the experience of visiting Jerusalem would be!

Pillars again!!!

Greek sights and stuffs

 

My first Greek meal… and I fell in love! The Greeks have the most spoilt tastebuds! 

The reason why I took this shot was because it reminded me of WoW, and I can just see a bunch of Kobolds running around mining for stuff.

Not a highly recommended thing to do while driving :p

So that’s it for the little trips in Greece. More posts on Santorini Island and Vienna soon!