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I doubt anyone is still looking for updates on the Turkey/Greece trip, but just in case here is a link to the pictures.

After getting up early we drove to Chios, returned the car and hopped on the daily ferry boat to Çeşme. When we arrived in Turkey it was very quite and we were wonderıng where everyone was in the middle of the week.  We quickly learned that it was a public holiday (Republic day, celebrating the proclamatıonContinue reading “Back to Turkey”

We took a ferry from Santorini back to Piraeus where our friends to a taxi to the airport when we arrived at 15:30.  We got some tickets for a ferry to Chios at 19:00.  The ferries to and from Santorini were rather new (6yrs), the one to Chios (the “Lissos”) was one of the olderContinue reading “Transit and Chios”

For this island words are really not enough. We have done pretty much all the main atttactions: – Sunset in Oia (the typical blue church domes and traditional windmills) – Ancient Thera (rather large town on hill 400m above sea level, dates back over 2500 years) – Black beaches at Perissa – Wine tasting andContinue reading “Santorini”

We took a taxi from Athens to Piraeus all pumped up about our ferry ride to Santorini. When we got to the ferry we learned that the public transportation strike now also kept the ferries from leaving. It took the better part of the morning to figure things out.  During the confusion and information gatheringContinue reading “Stuck in Piraeus”

Today we hit some of the main tourist sites in Istanbul. To bad I don’t have an easy way to upload pics…The curious can find images via google. Sites: – Blue Mosqoue; huge 400 year old building, very impressive dome! – Aya Sofia; another impressive dom; this building was a church for it’s first 1000Continue reading “Tourists!!”

From friend’s iphone… – stop over in New York for Times Square, Empire State Bldg. We had never been there – arr Istanbul 10am, took metro&tram to town – hopped on ferry to Asia side, checked out little streets,met our friends and there business partners for first great Turkish meal Fantastic day!!

This is the first post to start our little travel blog.  This is an experiment, so we’ll see how frequently we’ll add things while on the road. U&S