Cruising around Greece
Trip Start
Jun 13, 2008
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Trip End
Nov 20, 2008
Left the ship at 9am for excusion to Rhodes. A fantastic guide', Dimitris (a.k.a. Jimmy the Greek), met us at shore to take us up to the village of Lindos where there are ruins of a temple to Athena. Supposedly a bad walk up to the top but I found it OK.
The ruins were fantastic. No other way to describe it. After taking lots of pics we headed back down. Checked out a little chapel in the village then we headed to a pottery making place where could see them making traditional Rhodes pottery. Yes I brought some. LOL. The guide then took us on a walking tour of Rhodes. It is basically medieval and pretty original. Is a cool place. Used to be the home to the Knights of St John.
Back to the ship for lunch-had it at a table with lovely american family. The lady used to be a librarian at Yale. Spent the whole time trying to convince me to do MLIS (Master's in Librarian Information Studies to become Librarian-haha don't think so). Very interesting people.
Had a formal dinner that night with the tour on board ship. Went to Karoake afterwards-bit of a laugh.
The ruins were fantastic. No other way to describe it. After taking lots of pics we headed back down. Checked out a little chapel in the village then we headed to a pottery making place where could see them making traditional Rhodes pottery. Yes I brought some. LOL. The guide then took us on a walking tour of Rhodes. It is basically medieval and pretty original. Is a cool place. Used to be the home to the Knights of St John.
Back to the ship for lunch-had it at a table with lovely american family. The lady used to be a librarian at Yale. Spent the whole time trying to convince me to do MLIS (Master's in Librarian Information Studies to become Librarian-haha don't think so). Very interesting people.
Had a formal dinner that night with the tour on board ship. Went to Karoake afterwards-bit of a laugh.




Comments
Cool...!
You know what, Dimitris "Jimmy the Greek" Paschalis in my grandpa...
You couldn't find someone better to guide you in Rhodes!
I'm sure you had a great time...
Oh fantastic! I did have a great time! And he was a fantastic guide!
:)