This day was pretty useless in terms of seeing interesting things. The aim was to get past Thessalonika, which we did, and reach Komotini, which we did not, although we did get past Kavalla and spent the night at a lorry park at the ferry port. I know Kavalla from my tanker-tracking days because 5,000 dwt Russian tankers deliver fuel oil from Novorossiisk to the huge cement plant, and we spent the night a few hundred metres from said plant which hummed away all night long. The high point of the day was a byzantine church dating from 1212 which we found quite by chance at Dolini, a few miles off the main road before it starts to climb over the Olympus mountain range.
Mount Olympus is actually the name of the range and the highest peak is Mytikas (9,571 feet) which we saw across a huge valley from the south and then much closer from the north. Its highest gullies were streaked with snow.
We then drove for miles in search of a campsite with a laundry (lots of festering clothes) a shower (festering bodies) and wifi (because the mifi has run out of juice and for some reason Three won’t let me top it up). The excellent looking camp at Asproditi was closed so we decided to look for a campsite first thing the next day.