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Fantastic online booking for greek island hopping
My husband and I recently booked our 2013 summer holiday in the Aegean. We wanted something a little different from the usual package holiday resort vacation, and instead opted for a sailing trip around the Greek islands. We found a highly recommended agency online, Yachtsngulets, and visited their website to check out their deals. The opportunity to combine Greek Dodecanese and Cyclades Island ...
Relaxing on the beach
Beach time! After getting my head stuffed full of knowledge in the various libraries of Greece
and Turkey it was off to Marmaris for some relaxation and beach time. The beach was so lovely and sandy and yet so empty. If there was a beach like this anywhere near home it would have been packed with people outside enjoying the sunshine. I suspect that it is different during the summer months! As there were so ...
Day Trip to Symi and Panormitis
... is even crazier, is that two days before our trip, we made a prayer to the Archangel Michael along with Karen's mom, and here we were today, visiting his church. The Templon in the Katholikon appears to have been originally built around 450 AD over the site of an ancient temple dedicated to the God Apollo. The story is that a woman found an icon of the Archangel Michael and she took the icon several times to her home, the icon would disappear, ...
The Datca is good!
... It was so beautiful here. The Datça Peninsula is a long, narrow, mountainous finger of land that stretches west of Marmaris for about 100 kilometers. It extends into the sea like a long green dagger, a slice of green creating a natural division where the Mediterranean and Aegean seas meet. "
It was the complete opposite of Bodrum as far as lifestyle goes. We had found a good deal at a place called the Flow Datca Beach and surf ...
Oops... Major Mugla Mistake!
... everyone's final destination, but didn't really care enough to pay attention, or they would have piped up and told us to get off. Ok, ok, it's our responsibility to pay attention, but our hotel's address said Fethiye (Mugla), so we thought getting off at Mugla was the same thing! And the company really was **** too -- they completely passed one lady's destination until she called out to the staff, and then they had to turn around on the highway and retrace their ...