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Travel Blogs from Spetses
Day Cruise: Idra - 1st Stop
Up bright an early today for a 7:20 am pick up. Hmmm... thinking we could have slept several more hours! We arrived at the harbor and were greeted by the crew on the boat. Very nice people! All very peppy and awake for being so early in the morning! We climbed aboard the Platytera. Our boat had three stories. A dining room on the first floor, the middle looked like a big cafe, and the sun deck ...
The Mountain and the Sea
... son, Theseus, was dead. Hence the name of the "Aegean Sea." I didn't see him there, but I definitely could see how these cliffs were perfect for him to achieve his goal. Here! Check them out yourselves.
It was a simple day of ancient site seeing and lounging on the beach and was a successful close to the month of September.
Hydra
Last weekend marked my favorite ...
Athens
On my God. We wake up at 9.30 and hardly have any time to go into Athens. Rushed ashore without even a cuppa and had a coffee in a cafe before getting the hop on hop off to the city. Unfortunately the central city is closed today because of Angela Merkels visit and with riots expected. (And which did happen shortly after we ...
Spetses
... the island's infrastructure from his own pocket. So the road that goes around the island, he financed it and also the first (and only) cinema. Oh, another interesting thing about the island that the whole water supply is delivered by ships. So our Greek friend told us that probably we should not drink from the tap, but I did anyway. This water had no swimming pool taste at least :)
Thursday:
Leaving Spetses and going to Kalabaka, but that's in the next blog entry.
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A Different Boat
... disappointed with only one shop showing a few original paintings. Leonard Cohen is supposed to have a house here, looked but didn't see him either!
However the entertainment of the day was sitting at a cafe on the waterfront watching yachts and motor yachts finding somewhere to berth. The harbour is so full of little fishing boats and water taxis that there is only one sea wall for visiting boats to tie ...
Amenities
- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Free parking