We went to bed and got up early because yesterday we did not
have enough time to really enjoy the island.
Today we hoped to sightsee, shop and then go to one of the many beaches
and just relax.
It is an old volcanic island and was first inhabited in
3,000 BC. It is listed as one of the
tope 3 destinations in Greece ,
behind Santorini and Athens Greek Island in the Aegean Sea
and is the original party island with all of its beaches.
Finally the October weather caught up with us because when
we woke up it was 63 and had just been raining a little. The forecast was for clearing sky and
tempteture up to 68.
We took a chance and packed beach towels and set out to
visit the only town on the island.
We found that this was a beautiful island and flat as
opposed to Santorini yesterday. The
streets are cobblestone and 99% of the buildings are white, just like a post
card.
Then the rains came and washed away our plans for the beach. We had also packed two umbrellas so we
continued to walk the streets, but we did get wet.
We also visited some of the Greek churches and they are very
beautiful inside but very, very small.
We had a snack at a pastry shop and then lunch at a neat
little restaurant all while trying to stay dry, which we didn’t!
About 1, it stopped raining and by 2 we were ready to go
back to the ship as the winds picked up and the tempteture never did get high
enough for us to go to the beach.
So, after we got back on the ship, we spent a couple of
hours on the deck in the sun soaking up the rays.
After we came back to the ship of course we did our usual:
- Relaxed on our deck
- Cleaned up
- Took a nap
- Walked around
- Played in the casino
- Picked out pictures
- Ate dinner
- Second session in the casino
- Went to bed late
A very predictable schedule, but what a lot of fun we are
having. Barb is still feeling the
symptoms of being sick but is pushing through and hopefully she will be totally
well soon.
The casino was a really bright spot tonight with Barb
winning $1,000.00 and Ed was really down and then split 8’s and drew another 8
with a double so it was an $800 hand.
Tomorrow is a sea day and should be very relaxing and lets
hope we get great weather so that we can be on deck getting some sun as the
ship heads back towards Italy and sadly the end of our cruise – for this time.
Night from the sea.
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| Ed with his $3 umbrella from Rome |
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| A snack - spinish pie |
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| Lunch |
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| Typical street |
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| Windmills |
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| They call this Venice in Greece |
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| Lots of small churches like this one |
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| The town |
