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Week One Blog
With our new blog cleared of last year's trips we have
decided for better or worse to try and keep a weekly blog this year as well as
putting on any trips that we make. We have had all of last year’s blogs printed
and the book will be the second volume of our travels and, now that is printed,
we can start our new blog with the first week of December.
Amazingly it has been a week of contrasts with warm sunny days, cold nights ...
Jewels of Turkey
Saved for a whole year to take family on holiday to the lovely beach of Bardakci Bay on the Bodrum Peninsula in Turkey. Brilliant time was had by all especially our little 7 year old boy. Everything revolved around the beach and the pool with plenty going on day and night. Food was tasty and good plain food for kids. The ...
Party on Wayne!
... the boat around 11:00AM where our fun fill day began. We stopped at 5 different lagoons, where we were allowed to jump off the boat and go swimming. I now know why it is called the Turquoise Riviera . The water was actually turquoise, and so many different shades of it. You could see the bottom of the sea, in spots where it was greater then 8M deep. It was awesome! The water was also ...
Turkey 3- Greek Samos Island 6.9.12
... south to Pythagorio, a small fishing port with a most beautiful and typically Greek horseshoe shaped harbour lined with seafood restaurants where we had lunch. Incredibly, as you can see, one of the traditional fishing boats flew the NZ flag alongside the Greek ...
PANDELI TO PYTHAGORIAN (on the island of Samos)
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account of their travels. We also met our other neighbor, an Englishman who travelled with an extended entourage of kids and nannies and more interestingly had a car on the fore deck of his boat which he drove on and off by mooring his boat close to the side of the dock.
Our visit Samos was capped off with after dinner drinks and a bon voyage with Jayne and Kristo. Samos turned out to be a lovely stop.
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