When we woke today we were docked in Mykonos Greece. The view from the ship was as we had imagined white houses dotting the hills with splashes of blue but the weather was surely not typical. We should have been here on Sunday but due to high winds the ship sailed to Kusadasi Turkey first then to Athens and to Mykonos on the way back to Istanbul. The wind blew gale force all day and although it was sunny the wind made it cool enough to wear a jumper. I carried t...

One day in Athens is not enough. We decided to get the Hop on hop off bus rather than go on tour and wait for others to keep up hopefully we would see more by ourselves. The ship was docked in Piraeus which is seven miles from Athens and the Piraeus bus connects with the Athens city bus making it easy to get into the city. Our first stop was the Acropolis along with hundreds of others. It is quite a sight to see but of course there is scaffolding around the Par...