Days 31-34 (7 July - 10 July): Crusing on the Med
I spent the majority of the last few days "sailiıng" on the Mediterranean. I say "sailing" because we were under motor for most of the trip and when we were under sail there wasn`t enough wind to even really move us. It was a fantastic trip, nonetheless, as I can think of few other times in my life when I had no option but to relax. The family that owned the boat took care of everything else, so the hardest decisons I had to make over the last couple of days were how much to eat and should I swim or sit on the deck?
We made a number of stops along the way at sites that had mostly ancient Greek ruins as many of their cities were originally (and many still are) only accessable by sea. Among them standouts were a town currently ınhabited that had a fortress on a hill to defend ıt and a city that overtime as water levels changed is now underwater. We also stopped by St. Nıcholas Island (since as it turns out Santa is Turkısh.)
Pictures are probably the best way to illustrate this part of my trip since its hard to describe how blue the water was, etc.
Observations:
1) The ice cream man comes by boat (and so does the pancake lady.) The people here have gotten crafty enough to figure out how to put a generator and a frezzer on a power boat to motor out to people on cruises to sell their treats (at a premium of course.)
2) Summer break from school. The family that owned the boat had their two kids (about 8 and 13 years old) working as crew which seems like it must be a pretty cool job durıng the summer and educational too since being around a bunch of tourists helps the kids out with English and general learning about other parts of the world.
3) Sea-based economy. Its pretty amazing how much of life ın Ancient Greece had to be based on water and by boats. Without that as a form of transportation they probably would not have been able to flourish as they did.
4) London Bombings. It was interesting to see the reactions of others on the boat to the London bombings as we only had fragmentary information about it via text message from a couple of people`s friends in London since their were several Austarlians and New Zealanders who were either just moving to or away from London onboard. Most of all, none of them were surprised it happened in London, but many do not want to go back now that it has.
We made a number of stops along the way at sites that had mostly ancient Greek ruins as many of their cities were originally (and many still are) only accessable by sea. Among them standouts were a town currently ınhabited that had a fortress on a hill to defend ıt and a city that overtime as water levels changed is now underwater. We also stopped by St. Nıcholas Island (since as it turns out Santa is Turkısh.)
Pictures are probably the best way to illustrate this part of my trip since its hard to describe how blue the water was, etc.
Observations:
1) The ice cream man comes by boat (and so does the pancake lady.) The people here have gotten crafty enough to figure out how to put a generator and a frezzer on a power boat to motor out to people on cruises to sell their treats (at a premium of course.)
2) Summer break from school. The family that owned the boat had their two kids (about 8 and 13 years old) working as crew which seems like it must be a pretty cool job durıng the summer and educational too since being around a bunch of tourists helps the kids out with English and general learning about other parts of the world.
3) Sea-based economy. Its pretty amazing how much of life ın Ancient Greece had to be based on water and by boats. Without that as a form of transportation they probably would not have been able to flourish as they did.
4) London Bombings. It was interesting to see the reactions of others on the boat to the London bombings as we only had fragmentary information about it via text message from a couple of people`s friends in London since their were several Austarlians and New Zealanders who were either just moving to or away from London onboard. Most of all, none of them were surprised it happened in London, but many do not want to go back now that it has.
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