Category: Greece

We set off for Touris Club in Olympia for a fabulous meal. It was a 30 minute bus ride out from Katakolon to Olympia. We started with a cooking class, moved on to eating then finished with traditional Greek dancing. After lunch we stopped at a souvenir shop to pick…

Another early start today, we boarded a small boat at 7:40 am sans half the team (due to illness) to the island of Delos. This is the birthplace of Athena and one of the most important archaeological sites. Lots of walking and ancient history from 3000 to 8000 years ago……

Our day started at 6 am since our bus to Athens left at 7:30 although we didn’t actually leave till 8 am. As you can imagine, the traffic in Athens was as bad as any typical city. We arrived at the Acropolis and had over an hour wait – too…

We arrived at Santorini around noon today. We had to take a tender to shore then take a bus up to Santorini. Kudos to Norwegian on this for the sheer efficiency of getting so many people off the cruise ship in a short time. The cruise staff warned us that…

We call this day zero because we left Rome at 5 pm and spent a day at sea heading to Santorini. We took advantage of some of the shows onboard to pass the time. We started with a magic show by J Alexander. J was a bit funny with his…