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April 16, 2005

Greece-ian Formula

We completed our tour of Turkey, and now we are "Island Hopping" around Greece. We are experiencing the tranquility of the off season here, and it's been a welcome relief from the tour bus hoards of eastern Turkey. The formula has been do little, eat a lot. They serve crusty loaves of bread with every meal.

After a couple of very touristic days in Turkey, in which we were herded in tour groups through the ruins of Ephesus, saw the final home of Mary (you know, That Mary, Mother of God...) and then out to see the "Cotton Castle" of Pamukkale, which is made of calcium bi-carbonate. This interesting fact is the one of the only ones which our guide repeated to us about ten times that day!! It was a lot of bus travel because we were staying in one small city, Selcuk and visiting other cities-Ephesus and Pamukkale.

On the day that we toured Pamukkale, we spoke Four, count 'em, four languages! English, Turkish, Swahili and Thai. The first two are kinda obvious. We were able to speak Swahili because there were seven women on our tour who were living in Kenya. We spoke Thai with two (other) women from Thailand who we met on the bus back from Pamukkale to Selcuk. It was very cool.

So now we are chilling out on the island of Naxos. We arrived via ferry from Samos Island, which is a gateway from Turkey. There are very few tourists here, and about 1/4 of the shops are still closed from the winter season. So we are getting a decent rate on our room, which has a great view of the sea and a balcony and a kitchenette where Robin has been fixing up culinary masterpieces from the delicious local produce (think, olives, butter, tomatoes, eggplant and spinach with feta cheese and cheap wine). The weather is spring-like, warm days and cool nights. No swimming, yet. The water is very blue and clean.

We are having a great time doing nothing. Except plan the next month in Italy and Croatia.

Posted by Matt & Robin on April 16, 2005 05:35 AM
Category: Europe
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Hey Guys - Take lots of pictures (we are sure you did but try to post them when you can). It's wonderful that you are meeting so many people and sure can't wait to hear all your stories in person. Take good care of yourselves.

Posted by: Dad & CA on April 16, 2005 07:18 PM

sounds perfect- enjoy yourself. i want to transport myself to your kitchen- yum yum...all is well on the homefront and the package arrived from india- it was wild!

Posted by: amy on April 20, 2005 11:30 AM

Hi guys!
We are going to share the Safari photos with Olivia tomorrow. She loves elephants in particular. Amy gave us an update the other day. Greece! We're so jealous. She was out in the front WEEDING! how nice. We miss you.

Posted by: Michael Jules & Olivia on April 24, 2005 10:08 PM

Music to my ears - do little, eat a lot, crusty bread, not to mention island hopping; what else is there - sounds wonderful to me. Enjoy - love ya lots

Posted by: gloria on April 25, 2005 08:56 AM
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