Wednesday 17th September

We left Thessalonika by bus for Kavalla.  The journey took about 4 hours, through some quite beautiful countryside.  At Kavalla we were offered a lift in a land-rover type vehicle by a group of farmers to Xanthi.  Unbeknown to us at the time, we believe that the two individuals in the back of the vehicle went through our rucksacks and removed my pullover and Maurice’s knife!!  We then managed to get a lift to a point about 8 kilometres west of Komotini, where we camped.  A friendly shepherd came and watched us prepare camp!