Today we docked in Crete. I had scheduled a private tour before we left with Lefty, a highly recommended tour guide. We docked at 8am and reached the port building by 9am, right on time. As we exited the building, there was Gregoris, sent by Lefty, to show us around. Standing there with his sign "Al & Karen Meadows", we acknowledged him with a wave whereby he greeted us both and showed us to his car, a nice Mercedes. He had two cold waters and a box of Greek pa...

We arrived here ready for disembarkation at 8am. It's a nice looking port, at least from the ship. We can see an old castle-like structure up on the hill as well as one in the middle of the port. We take a tender to the town after breakfast. We usually wait a little for the crowd to die down. There's always a group that has to be first into port and then back to the ship before everyone else. While that may be a great plan, it's very difficult to e...

We're not seeing the Colossus but more about that later. Our tour today started out at 9am on a bus from the ship. We took a ride through the town of Rhodes, Greece. We saw the city, went up to the acropolis and returned to a palace and "street of the knights". We learned that Greece was controlled by the Romans, Ottoman, Italians and Germans up until 1948 when they again won their independence. The buildings were nice. The tour was short, only a few ho...

We docked at the Greek island of Mykonos early in the morning, just after sun up. We were up and getting breakfast around 8am when the first tender left the ship heading for town. We decided to let the crowd die down and finished our breakfast before going down to level A at the water line to board the tenders. The water is smooth and we scoot across it to the pier, the town hanging from the hillside above it and draping itself all the way down to the port. T...

Today we cruised through the Dardenelles off the coast of Turkey, leaving Istanbul behind and heading in the direction of the Greek Isle of Mykonos where we will arrive tomorrow morning. We had a nice breakfast up on the Lido deck 9. We don't eat a lot but just lots of different kinds of things. I usually go for the simple stuff - fresh fruit, scrambled eggs, cereal, mush, juices, coffee, waffle, crepes and very little meat, if any. Mom, on the other hand...