That morning we were invited to meet our tour guide, Iris, out on the upper deck and she pointed out sights in the city and told us a little about it's history. Rhodes is called "The Island of Roses."
The older part of the city is encircled about by a medieval wall and it is one of the best preserved medieval towns in Europe.
The deer is the symbol of Rhodes, and is found on all manhole covers.
Here I am, entering the city through one of the arch ways in the wall.
Kimball, Thomas & Cameron standing in a courtyard.
I shopped all morning with two of the girls, Marlyse & Rebecca.
Marlyse wanted to find a dress, so we went into this little shop. She didn't find a dress she liked, but I did find one that I bought to bring home to Cailyn.
After shopping all morning, we walked back to the ship for lunch. Afterwords, most of the group went to the beach. Marylse, Rebecca and I wanted to shop a little longer, so we went back into the town. After we finished our shopping, we walked down to the beach and found the rest of the group.
Looking back, I think it was amazing that we found them at all, The beach curved around, and it was thick with people as far as the eye could see.
This was cool, a diving platform out in the ocean.
Next, back on the ship & ready to leave. This is the little tug boat that pulled our ship around and got us headed in the right direction.
We found out later that evening that all the tour guides in Greece were going on strike beginning the next day (Friday, June 11th) Our next stop was to be the island of Crete, and we had an excursion scheduled to go the town (and palace) of Knossos which was once the capital city of the prehistoric Minoan civiliation. Because of the strike, our excursion was cancelled.
There was a wind tonight, and the water was quite choppy. As a result, there were a few of us that felt a little motion sick. I had some motion sickness pills that I picked up at the health food store before the trip, and I handed out quite a few of them. They did the trick and we all felt better the next morning.
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4 comments:
Crazy, they went on strike huh. I wonder if they do that a lot? Well, I'm glad you got your shopping in. I'm all for that!
The tour guide that stayed with us the entire time told us that strikes are very common in Greece. She said that the people are used to it and just adjust their life to get around it. Like if the public transportation goes on strike, people will take a taxi. She told us that several months ago, the garbage workers went on strike, and that in Athens the garbage was piled up all over the place before they went back to work.
oh nice, all that garbage laying around. That's pretty interesting.
How interesting. I am really enjoying your journey to Greece accounts.
BTW-The picture in the store where the gilr you were with was trying to find a dress the lady with the bike helpmet on looks like she has three arms.
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