We docked in the port of Piraeus near Athens. After a leisurely morning we joined a coach tour to central Athens. We stopped to view the Parthenon, the temple of Athena, on the Acropolis. We passed The Panathenaic Stadium which is the ancient, marble stadium that hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. Originally...

We docked in Kusadasi and took a coach tour to visit three sites of archaeological interest. We began with Miletus and Magnesia. We moved on to the magnificent site of the ancient city of Ephesus, for a guided walking tour. It was hot! At the end of the walking tour we were picked up by...

After breakfast we set off on a panoramic coach tour of Rhodes. View of Rhodes from our ship. We drove to Lindos and St Paul’s Bay. We had the obligatory stop at a local pottery. We passed an old amphitheatre. We were amazed to find how close Turkey is to Rhodes. We were dropped off...

After breakfast we set off on a local ‘hop on/hop off’ bus to look round Heraklion. We travelled the whole route on the top of the open air bus and then got dropped off in town. The stern of Azura can be seen in the middle of the photo. Even the dinosaurs at the Natural...

We set sail from Valetta last night heading to Heraklion on the island of Crete. The journey is just over 600 miles. We had a very ‘chill’ day, eating, chatting to fellow cruisers and taking part in various quizzes. In the evening we watched a show ‘Reel to Reel’ by the ship’s entertainment team, ‘The...