Athens We signed up for a ship's tour to Athens, just an easy trip with minimal walking. It started with a quick tour around Piraeus. It's quite a pleasant place which was almost destroyed by the Germans towards the end of WW2 so there are not many very old buildings although it has been a port since antiquity. From Piraeus the voyages described in the Iliad began. We had visited Athens long ago (in the 60s!) and in those days it was possible to climb up t...

Mykonos I was wrong when I said Turkey was next. It was really Mykonos. We only had a half day in beautiful Mykonos. Still making up time for the lost engine! Mykonos is too small for the ship to dock so it was our first port for tenders to be used. Tenders are just lifeboats which are used to transfer passengers and any crew ashore. I always like tender ports because you get a usually rough boat ride which I enjoy. Once in North America our tender became ...