Mykonos - Friday 27 September

We both had a great sleep last night - I think I must have slept more than nine hours! This morning we continued the journey from Istanbul to Mykonos, so we had a leisurely start to the day, David reading his book and me writing up the blog post about Istanbul. We lay in loungers out on deck. The ship anchored just offshore from Mykonos, around 12 pm, and there were lots of people wanting to be tendered off, so we hung around until 2:20 pm, had a light lunch at the International Cafe again, did our laundry and got it dry, then headed off when there were no queues. It was very scenic, coming from the ship, towards the dry, barren hills, covered only with white buildings - no other colours except the occasional blue top of a small church..

We had been to Mykonos before, but didn't want to go to the ancient site on the island of Delos. So we just retraced our steps from last time, but had a better look at the Little Venice area. We had a quick look at the windmills, and wandered through the narrow alleyways and down to the foreshore where we sat at a bar and watched the people go by while I had a Diet Coke and David had two stubbies of a Greek beer that he said were really nice.

It was a really hot day so we didn't linger, and headed back to the ship after an hour and a half - I think others were finding the same thing. The tenders back to the ship were very handily located, right in front of the town.

We headed back up on deck and back to our books. Later, we freshened up and headed for dinner at 6 pm, a table for two again, but this time Michael and Danica from our tour yesterday ended up at the table next to ours. So, we had a great conversation with them over dinner.

After that we went to the Piazza to see a couple of high energy dances from the Russian ballroom dancers. Then we went to the Princess Theatre to see the night's show by a 'Comic Magician' - he was hilarious. We checked out the photos we'd had taken at dinner on our last formal night, with Jan and Steve, and purchased a copy of each.

Mykonos

A delay getting suitable internet access to do this post, a couple of days after we visited Mykonos.

We had a leisurely day today, up at 8.30 am (instead of the more usual 6 am on this trip) and out the door at 9.30 am. We caught the shuttle around to the main township and just wandered about in the narrow, winding, meandering streets. Lots of little shops selling lots of souvenirs, jewellery, and clothes. More of the same, really. We took lots of photos, including the famous windmills, and thought the sea looked very blue here. Other than that, we didn't take tours of the island like some of the others did. It was another hot day. We headed back to the ship for lunch and I had a swim in one of the several pools on the ship - the water was warmer in the terrace pools than one of the central pools. We just sat around on the ship, read our books and relaxed. After dinner, we went to our first show on the cruise - Motor City - a presentation of lots of Motown songs - quite well done. Michelle would have enjoyed listening to it, watching the dancing, and listening to the harmonies.