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====The university campus in Thessaloniki is just in the city centre and it's the perfect place to sleep in your van/tent/sleeping bag, because it's the only green place in the city and because the police are not allowed to enter the university! There are few guards but don't have the right to touch you. It's generally safe, though perhaps not suitable for a single female.====

It's not so safe anymore. The drug business moved there, as unbelievable as university campus in Thessaloniki is just in the city centre and it sounds. People selling drugs and fighting over things related seems to them, passerbys get attacked.. If someone has be a perfect place to sleep in your van maybe it's okay. But sleeping in a /tent or /sleeping bag is an invitation to get robbed. It's the worst place to sleep, really. Try Seih Sou, the forest on the hills above the city. Or any crowded place in the center.but IT IS NOT!

We slept at a deserted camping space by the beach in AgIt's '''NOT SAFE THERE''' ''(upd.2022)''. The drug business moved there, as unbelievable as it sounds. TriadaPeople selling drugs and fighting over things related to them, which is really worth a visitpasserbys get attacked. We even made If someone has a big fire at night and van maybe it didn't disturb anybodys okay. This place But sleeping in a tent or sleeping bag is about 30km south of Saloniki and you can reach it within 1,5h by bus. From the famous ottoman tower take the bus an invitation to ikeaget robbed. At It's the last stop ask for the bus worst place to Perea and Agsleep, really. TriadaPlus, starting from 2019 it is a place where a lot of immigrants sleep. The last bus will pass by the airport and Police has no right to enter a cupple that area because of villages before you get to Triadasome tragic past, i.e. Ask it's ideal place for the old camping at the beach, locals will guide youdrug sellers and crime.

The tickets for the buses in the city cost 0.80€ and sometimes 0.90€(0. Blackriding is possible. If you speak to the controller in a foreign language (showing that you're a tourist, not an illegal immigrant40€ for students) they'll just leave you alone. If not, they first ask 30 euro 2€ for the tax, you say you don't have. Then they ask your id card, you say you don't have it with you and then they'll just give you a paper to note your name and address, where you can write any fake name. Or even simpler you can give your real passport and they are supposed to send you the bill to your country. It's 100% SURE that they will notairport route.

There were big movements in this city about not paying for public transport'''Blackriding''' is possible. Many people donIt't pay and controls are s risky because there is no chance of recognising controllers before they enter the bus, however the very control is rare. Spent a whole month in this city taking buses daily and never got checked.

''===Fititiki Leshi. (Φοιτητική Λέσχη) upd:2022'': === Next to the campus of Aristotle University, Egnatia street, after the crossroad with 3rd September street there is the university canteen. (''Address: Egnatia, Thessaloniki 546 36, Greece''). Ask anybody for ''fititiki leschi''/φοιτητική λέσχη. There you can find a free full meal three times per day: 8.00-10.00, 12.00-15.00 and 18.00-20.00. These free meals are provided for the university students, but even if you're not one, you don't have to pay and you don't have to show a student ID or any document (but due to cobtrol re-enforcement you could be asked for your ID).

''===Alfa foititiki estia (Α' φοιτητική εστία):'' your ===Your aim is the same - free student food from student canteen, however now you are going to search it directly in canteen of student's dorms. There is no control at the entrance of student's dorms. The restaurant is located on the first floor, at the left side from the big marbke marble stairs. The doors are opened at the meal time.

You can find it by following ''address: Stilponos Kiriakidi 17, Thessaloniki 546 36, Greece''

- They are controling IDs only during day time and evening time, so it's very easy to get therein there in the morning (8 a.m - 10 a.m). In the morning there are almost no people eating, so staff is really bored of checking IDs or is even absent. - Take the trey with food and go eat as all do at the table. Don't be suspicious, you are a student now. Many students dondoesn't really eat there, they are taking food away food which they can physically take out and leave the dorms. You can do the same. - Normally control-staff are crossing out the numbers on the paper. Each student have has his own number on ID-card and he tells it in the moment of entering. It's another strategy of pretending to be a student: you tell random number in greek language (p.e. 103 = ekato tria, 25 - ikosi pensepende, 207 = diakosia diakosa epta, etc), so they will cross it out. Don't worry, students rarely take morning breakfast, so you are not "eating someone's foodin his place".