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Cannakale, Turkey
... and pieces of shrapnel that have been found by one Turkish man and kept over the decades. Last stop at ANZAC Cove where an RSL rep read the ANZAC verse and laid a wreath on behalf of the Aussies and New Zealanders on the Seaborn Odyssey. Very moving. Onto lunch and then back to the ship by 5pm for caviar and champagne served by the crew as a farewell. Dinner with ...
Half Day Athens Sightseeing
... was very nice and had a large collection of statues and other sculptures as well as a nice view of the Acropolis.
After the tour was finished and I returned to my hotel I had some free time in the afternoon. As I still needed to figure out where the port was for my ferry trip to Santorini in a couple days I decided to make my way to the Port of Pireas. I heard how good the ...
A Night at the Opera
... indeed.
We were further blessed by the presence of English surtitles, which we had investigated already. I had done a quick plot research just to make sure we didn't get lost (found Die Fledermaus the other week quite hard to follow and thought we might need a primer), so the English translation did help things along. What we didn't count on were two announcements about 10 minutes after the show was due to commence. The first ran along the lines of ...
Day 55 - How many more museums??
... appearance.
We then took the hop on hop off bus to some huge, expansive meat and produce markets. There was a whole warehouse building full of fresh beef, lamb, pork, chicken, goat, and god knows what else. There were full carcasses hanging everywhere, guts and eyes, hooves and heads on display as far as the eye could see. It was awesome! Next to this was the ...
Day 5 In Olympia again.
... They are staying in the same hotels as us and also they are from Queensland Australia. There are three of them Helen, who is 18 a year older that Jack, Jake who is 15 who is the same age as Kate, then there is Marcus who is 12 the same age as me. We all got to know each other and we both walk back to the hotel we found out they are only 3 doors down from us. Mum decides to invite them to dinner with us so we were all looking forward to that.
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