Taking the turning for Chalastra, gateway to the Axios Delta National Park, the silence was so sudden it was as if someone had flicked a switch. Far from the snarl of the hooting, honking traffic on Thessaloniki’s motorway, I was on a narrow tree-fringed road and the only sounds were the buzz of cicadas and the clamouring from storks’ nests high overhead.
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King George I of Greece and Crown Prince Constantine enter Thessaloniki, 1912. Credit: Wikipedia/Public domain.It was October 26, 1912 when freedom bells rang in Thessaloniki, as the Greek army liberated the city from Ottoman rule. The city was freed only 20 days after the declaration of the First Balkan War. At the start of the…