Hello friends! I am writing to you from an internet cafe on the island of Samos, Greece. Thank the Lord for air conditioning. With some conversion here and there, we believe that it is approximately 89 degrees Fahrenheit outside with 80% humidity...pretty warm, folks! Charlotte and I finally nailed down our travel plans - well, mostly. We will be visiting Samos, Syros, Mykonos, and Athens this week. I'm sure it will fly by as everything seems to have done thus far. Samos is really just a starting point for us in Greece, as we are not staying long. We will take a ferry boat tonight in just under five hours. I would describe Samos as a quaint historic port town. We have walked around and explored quite a bit here. There's a city square, a small park, some churches, and lots of cafes, restaurants, ect. We visited the museum today, which has this giant old human sculpture in it. And by giant I mean two stories giant. They only discovered it 30 years ago, and it is really really cool. As it turns out, Charlotte is a wonderful traveling buddy (haha!) - not that it ever crossed my mind that she wouldn't be, I swear it.
Our time in Selcuk/Ephesus/Sirince with Chelsea was - dare I say - perfect. It was so very restful and complete. We stayed at the most wonderful little pension/hotel there called Hotel Nazar (in case any of you are thinking to visit Turkey/Ephesus. I would definitely stay there again, and I will be certainly let Trip Advisor know this as well. Osman and the staff there took very good care of us and said that we were like "the angels of the pension." :)
My time is about to expire...ahh!! Farewell for now.
Ef - God - Is - Stow.... Say that altogether fast and it means "thank you" in Greek. Love!
Our time in Selcuk/Ephesus/Sirince with Chelsea was - dare I say - perfect. It was so very restful and complete. We stayed at the most wonderful little pension/hotel there called Hotel Nazar (in case any of you are thinking to visit Turkey/Ephesus. I would definitely stay there again, and I will be certainly let Trip Advisor know this as well. Osman and the staff there took very good care of us and said that we were like "the angels of the pension." :)
My time is about to expire...ahh!! Farewell for now.
Ef - God - Is - Stow.... Say that altogether fast and it means "thank you" in Greek. Love!
I love hearing all about your adventures! Looking forward to seeing pictures too. I'm guessing that you'll be able to post them once you're back in Germany- after the 18th? Tell us more!!! How are things in Greece? We see bad things on the news. Please be careful! Much love, Momma
ReplyDeleteWe didn't see anything unusual in Greece. We were there for the day of elections and although we don't speak/understand Greek, we could obviously tell that we were traveling with a lot of Greeks who had to register in their home towns. Lots of people were having political discussions, you could just see it in their body language and tone, etc. Tourism is down some, but mainly from Americans as there's more bad media in the U.S. than elsewhere, it seems. Athens was dirty, but there weren't any riots or visible tensions. :)
DeleteHa! You crack me up. As I already said - "Jealous!"
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