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... as Manuel from faulty towers - only he got everything right, he did all the cooking (he was a bloody good cook!!)...<br>Koycegiz is a small village/town set on a lake - on the west coast of Turkey, inland from the Aegean Sea, famed for it's bird-watching and thermal baths.<br>I took a day-long boat tour the next morning (I unusually woke early, but that was more of a direct result of the ...

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

... a magnificent bronze statue of Helios, a Greek God. It was one of the seven wonders of the Ancient world. The statue only stood for 56 years before an earthquake destroyed it in 226BC. <br><br>The medieval town of Rhodes has now been declared a world heritage site. And no wonder with its winding old lanes, ancient defensive walls and its beautiful clear sky and water. We couldn't have afforded a night here but we sure are glad we got to spend a day in this touristy little town. <br><br ...

... present things to make the "standard tourist's" life easier. Menus are filled with the staple "tourist" foods (pizza, pasta, hamburgers and English Breakfasts), usually with bad pictures. All the bars gain a feel that could be lifted from a bad parody of Las Vegas, whilst drink prices drop to a level that ensures the drunken patrons destroy anything that would have added to the ambience of the town. Touts start to line every corner to hawk an ...

... happens to be the world famous pianist, Sylvaine Llario who is more used to such venues as Paris and others around the world.) Not bad for a local !! One final thing - Our luck nearly ran out the other evening whilst at the weekly quiz night when our team came joint first! (Don't know how it happened!) The winners get to set the following week's questions with all the preparation that that entails but fortunately we lost in the tie-break.

Next we were onto Rhodes, one of the most historically significant Greek Isles. We saw the medieval old town, the Acropolis (yes, Rhodes has one too), and the site where the Colossus of Rhodes presumably stood in ancient times. We also got in a little beach time and visited a neat pottery factory.<br>

... kinda like a circle and put a kleenex over it and told me to sleep with it like that. later when i returned to the dinner party someone duct taped my kleenex to my palm. one of the guys there said there would be no way they could have planned something like this and i felt very lucky to have seen this. it was sooo intense and cool. they gave me, kind of like a party favor, another glob of henna wrapped in foil for me to do this again to my palm a few weeks from now to ...

... in the closed duty-free shop amidst glass-encased butterflies and was relieved to see that Rhodes Town is on the northern tip of the island. I knew we were going to dock here and I also knew that Turkish day trips ran to the northern coast.<br><br>Sleek Mercedes taxis cruised the Commercial Dock as we descended from the boat. We were hungry and we had to find a boat to take us across the water to Asia Minor. I knew that we had missed the daily hydrofoil because I had seen it from ...