Awoke fit and healthy this morning. Was well looked after by the ships medical team and have been given the all clear to be out and about today. Thessaloniki is the second largest city of Greece and the capital of Greek Macedonia. It's history spans some 2300 years. Built near the sea (at the back of the Thermaïkos Gulf), it is now a modern metropolis but still pays tribute to its stormy history which gives it a special beauty and charm. Today we started with a...

Kavala is amphitheatrically built on the slopes of Mt. Symvolo forming one of the most picturesque cities in Greece. The city's history dates back to the Prehistoric times with the core being continuously inhabited since the 7th century BC. After 2500 years though, at the beginning of the 16th century, Kavala expanded maintaining these new borders until 1870; it was only after 1928 that it began to shape its today structure. Its strategic and economic importance ...

Patmos is a small island with a population of approximately 3000 people and is the northernmost island of the Dodecanese complex. Patmos was seldom mentioned by ancient writers so little is known about the earliest inhabitants. Remains of human settlements found on the island date back to 2000 BC. Worldwide Patmos is known as a sacred island for it is the place where Saint John wrote the Book of Revelation. Designated as "Holy Island" by the Greek Parliament in ...

Greece's most famous cosmopolitan island is sold as a whitewashed paradise in the centre of the Cyclades Islands. According to mythology, Mykonos was formed from the petrified bodies of giants killed by Hercules. Did you know that the island took its name from the grandson of Apollo, "Mykonos"? In contrast to the other islands we have visited, the capital town (Hóra) is not built in the shape of an amphitheatre but instead spreads out over a wide area. Mykonos i...

A small rocky, uninhabited island, no more than 5km long and 1.3 metres wide, was for ancient Greeks the most sacred place because Apollo and Artemis, two of the most important Greek gods, were born there. Because of this no mortal would ever be allowed to be born on its land and no mortals would ever be allowed to die on it either. So, apart from it being a religious and economic centre, the island had also been exclusive in that: even during the years of peak o...