Wednesday 11 August 2010

CITY OF GHOSTS


The Bristol Hotel in Skopje that I wrote about in High Times at the Hotel Bristol is not the only one to have survived disaster. Half a century earlier and 200km to the south, fires roared through Thessaloniki and spared little of this extraordinary, historic city (the waterfront Hotel Splendid is here pictured in flames). The handsome, neoclassical building that is today the five-star Capsis Bristol Hotel was, however, one of the few buildings to have been spared.
I was in Thessaloniki last Easter, the Greek Orthodox one, which this more

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