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Confined to ship
Day 43 At sea, somewhere in the Mediterranean Today is one of only two at-sea days. We get to sleep in and as a bonus, get back the hour we lost when we went to Greece. We are feeling a bit seedy and the sea is an it rougher than closer to the coast, so that doesn't really help much! I have to have a hangover breakfast and am glad I don't have to cook it for myself. Paul does his washing in our tiny bathroom, now our room is more like a Chinese laundry. There are ...
Athens
... directly down on to the Temple of Zeus and Hadrian's Gate. A very efficient underground railway system made it easy to travel around, though we found our hotel was in walking distance of many attractions, shops and restaurants. We had dinner in the Plaka- the old city - in what can only be described as some lovely traditional Greek restaurants. Very ambient, with the floodlit Acropolis in the background. Many ...
Cruise Part 2
Day 7 of the cruise took us to Aghios Nikolaos, Crete. We had no organised tour for here so we went on a "road train" ride around the city. An interesting city with many of the usual Greek highlights, churches, restaurants and hotels. Once again there were signs of the economic woes of Greece with many abandoned construction sites and closed up buildings. Had a swim at a local beach. Beautiful clear water but the beach was a rocky ...
Greek Isles Cruise
... a leisurely buffet brekky and then wandered off the boat and onto mainland Turkey! Straight into masses of markets, stalls and shops!!!! The hawkers were relentless, following us along the street and seriously harassing us much to my annoyance! The town was pretty grubby and although having the ocean at its front step, I took an instant dislike to it! So we wandered along for a while in the increasingly hot sun, dodging the many skinny cats and dogs ...
Islands and mainland Greece
... mate before heading to Spain for July. So we had about 3 weeks left to see mainland Greece, Albania and Montenegro.
Athens: We arrived late afternoon in Athens and decided to just stay overnight and get an arvo bus to Meteora. We got off the ferry and had to take a 30 min train ride into the centre. The ticket guy at the ferry terminal said nothing except 'hide your wallet', so we arrive at our station, gee whiz, some parts of ...
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