Friday 4/10 Rhodes Sunny/windy 18 deg - Judy here...A sleep in, last full day of our cruise and togetherness with Enid. Rhodes is a lovely ancient walled city right on the Aegean. It was a sunny but a very blustery cool day and due to the wind and our 3.00pm sailing, we did not spend much time ashore. When we sailed they had a 5km "On Deck for a Cause" walk with funds going to the Cancer Society, so we all took part and were nearly blown over with the wind. Th...

Thursday 3/10 Kuşadası (Turkey) Sunny 21 deg - John here...An early start to the day, up at 6am - amazing, as it was still dark. After a quick breakfast, we left the ship and onto our bus to visit the House of Mary, we arrived around 9am, amazing, more buses here than the bus depot in Istanbul. Our guide Ayca was very good in giving background and context to the spirituality of this site. We then travelled to Ephesus which was a huge ancient site - the larg...

Wednesday 2/10 Thira (Santorini) 26 deg Sunny - Enid here...We tendered at Santorini and the scenery looked amazing as we arrived and it didn't disappoint. We took the speed boat ride to the village of Oia and walked the ridge top viewing all the white and blue of the houses with magnificent ocean views; it was so exciting being there. We walked the donkey track down to the boat, very hard slippery and smelly, felt sorry for the donkeys as they look so sad bu...

Tuesday 1/10 Katakolon 24 deg Cloudy/Sunny - Judy here...Docked for Olympia and along with all the other tour buses we arrived at the site about 9am. We saw where the flame has been lit since 1936, which this event had just occurred two days prior for the Winter Olympics. Walked the tunnel entrance to the stadium and stood on the starting blocks where thousands of years ago athletes had stood, this was an incredible feeling. We had a guide for this tour which...

Monday 30/9 Kerkira (Corfu) 21 deg Cloudy - Judy here...Bodies feeling the exercise from yesterday...ship tendered at Corfu along with 4 other cruise ships. We went by tender from our ship to shore for a stroll around the town, back to the ship to relax and some reading!