Yasas from Greece,
As you can see from the photos, it was another "dress up" night on the Queen!!!! We are at a cocktail party that they invite certain people to...whether you are on the world voyage, traveled thousands of days or are in with one of the crew!!! Anyway, it's free champagne so I usually get there at the beginning and Ken joins up with me..ha-ha!!
The camel is representative of our great time in Egypt...we could've dressed the part...oh well...notice my Egyptian bracelet. By the way, that is what I've been collecting everywhere I go...bracelets. Needless to say I have a big collection of bracelets!!!
The next photo I titled "3 blondes with stripes"!!!
So we are onto Athens...what a great day and what was so special is we met up with Niki, my longtime friend who lives in Greece. We had to go to Plan B on our meeting as all the taxis and buses went on strike and the ship was docked about 30 minutes from town. We took a tour in the morning to the Acropolis and our initial plans were to meet up with Niki who was taking the metro and come back by taxi or shuttle bus. Since parking is so bad in the city Niki didn't want to drive. Well, parking is bad, but with 17,000 taxis and the buses off the road it was very easy driving and she ended up driving into town, we met at the museum and had a great lunch on the Platka. I must say I was a bit nervous if we hadn't caught up with her we would have had no way back to the ship..Not good!!! Boy, I was so glad to see her...my first girlfriend in 3 months...it was so emotional. Our tour to the Acropolis was another taste of ancient history. To look at the building, the sculptures and the designs just blows my mind...how did they do that??
I hated to say goodbye to Niki and was sad that her daughter, Katarina was unable to join us. She had unfortunately come down with something that morning and was home sick from school. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It is also known as the birthplace of democracy. Named after the goddess Athena, Athens is one of the oldest city in the world with a recorded history of at least 3,000 years. Today, the Greek capital is a bustling and cosmopolitan and metropolis with an urban population of 3.1 million people and a metro population of 3.7 million people. it was the host city for the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896 and in 2004 welcomed the Summer Olympics back home with great success.
All in all it ended up to be a great trip, especially with less traffic...it was almost as the Red Sea was opened and we were able to drive through...they even had one lane that only taxis were to drive in that we could drive in. It was the only Niki said she had driven in that lane...I guess there's a first for everything!!!
One more tour to Rome and we are done; too soon!!!
Looking forward to sharing all the other exciting adventures with y'all when we get home!!
janet and ken
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