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Petra, Lésbos, Northeast Aegean Islands, Greece

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Day 239 - The Ancient City

A travel blog entry by craigadventure

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... The influence of this legendary narrative has permeated the cultural and literary lore of the Greek, Roman, Byzantine and European empires from whence all of 'western civilization' has evolved.

We knew the gist of the story and the history after having read up on it (somewhat) and self-guided our way around the site. The ruins are still being excavated after being (re)discovered in the late 19th century and are not in and of ...

Spiti mou, sweet spiti mou

A travel blog entry by chrispreece1

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... against a backdrop of hills; cool shade in the dark green pine covered mountains; the bright silvery green Olive groves; clusters of red rooved stone houses; the flamingoe flecked salt marshes after Kalloni; the grey volcanic moonscapes of the North West; the final drop down into the lush, wide green valley of Eresos and the whole drive punctuated by promising glimpses of the glittering sea

With relief ...

Last Full Day in Assos!

A travel blog entry by hmocha

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... in my defense, short of asking me to stir the soup, I wasn't allowed to help with anything). Dinner was rice, chicken with veggies, mushroom soup and cold soup. I'm not really sure who was supposed to eat with us since it changed so many times (first Nur was here and then she left and then Ayşegül was here and then she left) but it ended up being Seher, Selin, and, Selen's boyfriend, Ozberk. They ran off right after dinner to go to a poetry reading and Tugay and ...

No Seriously, Everything Really is Beautiful!

A travel blog entry by hmocha

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... bit of waiting, got on the bus. We were the last people on the van. We drove for about an hour and finally got to the ferry, which the van drove right on to. We went up to the main deck where everyone was allowed to stand. Necip is training to be a sailor and he knows everyone around here so he convinced the real captain of the ship to, not only, let us up to the captain's area but also to let Necip drive the boat! So Necip ...

Day 39

A travel blog entry by nevjoan

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... forego the choir as we were singing.
Nev did some video so I could hear the choir sing.
This afternoon Nev went to a lecture on Gibraltar by Debbie.
I spent the rest of the day coughing and as the doctor opened her doors at 4.30pm we went back to see her.
She checked me out and said that my wheezing was impressive ( Not sure how to take that )
She agreed that I was feeling worse and decided to change ...

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