In keeping with the theme of the
last post, I wanted to try to show highlights of our trip without dedicating a
whole post to each day of the trip (like I did for our Paris trip, which was
exhausting and time-consuming). Instead, I'll post a few pictures for
each place, perhaps even combining ports. With that said,
on to the trip! We embarked on our adventure from Venice, and having
visited before, we chose to stay outside the city in a cute hotel, and so took
no pictures of the main sites in Venice. After our sail away, we had two
days at sea and on the third day, visited Athens, Greece. We had hired a
private guide (Hi Takis!) who spent a few hours driving us around to see the
sights. We did not tour the Acropolis as
we had done that in 2009 on our honeymoon.
He did take us to see the changing of the guard however, which we all
found to be one of the most mesmerizing things we had ever seen. The pictures
don’t do the ceremony justice, but it was amazing! We also toured some ruins and spent a few hours shopping in one of the oldest shopping districts in the world, the Plaka!
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| A Greek Orthodox Cathedral we visited |
Our next stop was Kusadasi,
Turkey. We chose to spend the day
touring the very large Bazaar. It made
for some very good shopping!
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| From our stateroom window |
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| In the bazaar |
Our third stop was Santorini,
Greece. We toured around by charter bus, visited a winery,
saw the breathtaking scenery from the cliff tops and had an Opa style greek
lunch complete with dancing and the breaking of plates. Awesome!
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| One of Santorini's many cafes |
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| Our Greek lunch, Opa! |
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| Posing with my new bag at the winery! |
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Our ship the Jade, from atop a cliff
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