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Travel Blogs from Halkidiki
Confined to ship
... of ship-board activities planned for today, but we take the chance to catch up on stuff that we haven't had time for. I finally manage to get on top of my blog entries and when I get to some wifi will be able to post all the entries and pictures. Marty is having a rest day, although perhaps we will have to pull him out later for some photos when we get bored. Paul goes to the gym ( I think he is getting very worried about the prospect of state cup when we ...
Athens
... the restaurants and wait patiently at the tables for any food that might come their way. Very hard to resist them. On the negative side, there is a lot of graffiti, most of which there has been no attempt to remove. With the current exchange rate we have found everything to be very reasonably priced. Flying to Dubai this morning for some relaxing on Jumeria Beach, Turkish coffee and a little retail ...
Cruise Part 2
... tea, a speciality of the Turks. Santorini was the next port and certainly one of the most spectacular. Santorini was all that you would imagine it to be. Such magnificent scenery. Santorini is essentially what remains of an enormous volcanic explosion that destroyed the earliest settlements on what was formerly a single island. Our tour took us to Oia which is the village where most of the images we see of Santorini are taken. We ...
Project Update and Reflection on Self
... chosen, but it will have to do. What pleases me about this project is that I can quite easily see the fruits of its completion. The ducks are growing a mile a minute and the other guests here like to sit and hang out with the ducks, too. Everyone seems really happy that the ducks are so happy. There is a nice garden on the grounds, with a variety of fruits and vegetables growing. Each night's tasks for staff includes weeding and watering. There is a row of lettuce in one ...
Islands and mainland Greece
... out. Pretty impressive scenery and pretty amazing what these saints built back in the day. As you can imagine the rock climbing is also meant to be awesome. Went out on a day trip with this guy and got Shell to tag along too. The climbing was ok, but not too challenging but still fun as we got to do multi-pitch climbing on a 70 m rock face. After meteora we decided to skip Corfu- a Greek island off the west coast and instead head straight in Albania. ...