Aquarium Hotel Rhodes

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Steve's an alright guy, peopel like him, he drinks a butt load o fbeer and he gets so funny, sometiems even gets horny. but then when you hear him orer tat first gin, it souns like this"I'l have a triple beefeeters staight up with a lwmon twis, time he is finsihed oddering dont een look for me, i hauled ass before he started spriting his fake lemon in his mmout.

"Oh dear ypu cant be right" "no way. not that cute little boy ...

... degrees during the day.

The hotel was right on the beach and my room had a ninety degree view of the ocean and it was wonderful to be able to hear the waves break onto the shore and smell the lovely salty air again. The taxi driver assured me that crime was non-existent and it was safe to walk around at any time of the day and night on my own. I certainly took advantage of that and enjoyed my evening walks along the beach pathways before and after ...

I was really overdue my holidays, finally getting to take it in October and I just signed up to two weeks of not doing much in Turkey with a couple of friends in a group. For me though not doing much isn't my cup of tea so I took every chance to re-live my old Turkey memories, from food, sights, sea, dancing and ahem, yes the men, again :)

Please come back soon as I update all the stories from the two weeks. Thanks.

... understand Rhode's place in history (crusades, knights etc). Hopefully Monty Python made a movie about it so I don't have to read about it! There are tons of tourist shops which also get a bit tiring at times (more so for me than Andy). Back on board, we went to the Oasis Cafe for a casual dinner instead of the more 'formal' main dining room. I find the formal dining room somewhat exhausting with all the staff rushing about and the ...

... had taken the island from the Ottomans, decided to restore it as a holiday home for King Emanuel III and Mussolini - who apparently never came to even see it let alone stay here - however at least this means the building was restored!. The outside is supposedly pretty much like the original according to old documents, but inside is completely redone, with a lot of ancient mosaics from Kos and other islands reinstalled in the floors of the various rooms. There is also a very ...

Next we were onto Rhodes, one of the most historically significant Greek Isles. We saw the medieval old town, the Acropolis (yes, Rhodes has one too), and the site where the Colossus of Rhodes presumably stood in ancient times. We also got in a little beach time and visited a neat pottery factory.

... history. It has been occupied by Persia, Rome, the Knights of St. John, the Ottoman Turks, and the Germans during WW2. Rhodes only became part of Greece in 1947. The island is very small and a partial day was plenty of time for our visit. Our first stop was at the top of Mt. Smith, where we saw the ruins of the Acropolis. The ruins are just sitting out for anyone to walk up to, very casual. We saw a heavily restored theater (only 3 of ...

... on the ship. Day 6 was at sea. There was all sorts of stuff to do but for much of the day we laid out on the deck in the sun. The second formal dinner was this night I think. That was a good time as well. Day 7 (Dubrovnik). Never did I ever expect in a million years that I would set foot on Croatian soil, but lo and behold, there I was at 8am in Croatia. Dubrovnik is an ancient city on the western coast of Croatia. I didn't expect much but it turned out to be great. We went up on ...

... tzaziki and taramasalata with bread bought from a local shop for most meals. Cold water can be obtained from the seahorse fountain or the occasional Ottoman marble tap, although these have fallen into a state of disrepair and have become receptacles for cigarette butts. Walking around the streets in the evening is a gourmet nightmare for people who have a budget to stick to. Smells waft at you from all angles and waiters implore you to enter deliciously lit sunken gardens, nestled with ...