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John

The next few blogs are of separate trips that we did: Sue to Rhodes in the Greek Isles (on her list of "must-do's!" for many, many years) and The Hague in the Netherlands (something she didn't DARE hope she could one day do), and John to Istanbul and Gallipoli in Turkey, a place I have always wanted to visit to acknowlege the great sacrifice given by so many there.

We both flew out from London Heathrow and the 16th of November and returned to ...

Another beautiful day. Sunny 78 degrees on the island of Rhodes. We travel to Lindos half way down the island. To see the Acropolis were Paul spoke to the Greeks. A long climb to the top with a view to forever. Just outstanding. Back to the boat early to catch some sun by the pool.

I am going to upload a couple of pics from yesterday on Myconos to give you an idea of the beauty here.

Davo and Janet

... recommened a place from a local, which turned out to be ok. Honestly, we've had better Mousakka in San Francisco, but the Greek Salad is pretty amazing. Who knew Cucumbers, tomatos, feta and olive oil could taste so good? We've tried to make our own using exactly the same ingredients, but somehow they manage to do it better.
Now we're off to the one-and-only Santorini!

... of little alleyways again and you realized that you had come back to where you started. It was fun and we spent about 4 hours in there and then walked back to the ship. Had a late lunch on the ship and went to our cabin to have our afternoon siesta and watched Get Smart on tv. We decided to have a day off the grog so watched the ship leave from deck 7 and headed to the Casino for a short time and then came home.

After a quick breakfast, we headed off to the port to catch our 9am ferry to Rhodes, but it looked like everyone else in Fethiye had the same idea. The boat was full of those annoying package holiday makers on a day trip to Rhodes.

After a rough ride, we bought our tickets to Athens (Rhodes to Athens €53 each, one way) and had the whole day to spend in Rhodes before our next ferry departed.

Rhodes was famous worldwide in the ancient world for the Colossus of Rhodes ...

... coming back was a early morning flight
sunday. but would much pref a aftertoon flight both ways!!

we had two weeks all inclusive. meaing the food and drinks included
places visited lindos,perfkos, falraiki,rhodes and symi island. also
did a jeep safari tour on the island was great. sure was action!1

Start of travels: Sep 05, 2009
End of travels: Sep 20, 2009

Arrived in Rodos (Rhodes) at 8 in the morning just missing our connecting ferry to Turkey. We now had 7 hours to kill in Rhodes Town on Rodos. The ferry ride to Rodos was smooth sailing. Daniel and I splurged on a shared cabin since I wasn't feeling well and 15 hours on a deck chair just wasn't appealing to us. With my computer and his Ipod we watched movies till we passed out for a good nights rest. The next day we knew was going to be exhausting ...

... the phrases and words we had learned. It was a nice change.

A potted history of the city is as follows. Early settlers were the Minoans from Crete who were later taken over by the Spartans. The town of Rhodes developed over the years and was first under Roman occupation and later became part of the Byzantine empire. Many conflicts followed but later on the Knights of the Crusades, recently kicked out of Jerusalem, arrived and fortified the city. In the sixteenth century, after a ...