You can see the walled old town of Alanya

See that boy up the top ready to jump? That would be our grandsons

Hippocrates Statue in Kos where he had his medical school

First church I have been into for a while

Glorious market, wish I could take it all home

My stuffed vine leaves, garlic bread and olives. Very Greek lunch

Greek beer and iced coffee - my new favourite drink

Greece

Aug 3–6 in Cyprus ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C

Alanya - I had a bit of an upset stomach so it was a very quiet day for me, even had dinner via room service. Reset and recharge. Neil did go for a 40min walk into Alanya then also had a restful day. We watched approx 40 boats come out of the harbour, one after the other, packed with ‘young’ people, they bought them out into the bay and they all jumped off the boats from varying heights. No lifejackets just little floaters chucked into the water for them to grab if needed. One of the boats was called Titanic and they were playing Celine Dion’s song “My Heart Will Go On” as people went up the front plank to do the pose, it was funny to watch. Loud music emanated from other boats, they were ready to party. All activities in Alanya centred around the water, there were lovely beaches as well with thousands of loungers set out.
I enjoyed watching Stanley Tucci in Italy on the TV, he was describing the foods found in Italian regions, will be handy to know when we get there. It was the first TV I have watched in weeks.
Limassol - We docked at 6am and left at 1pm as we have a long trip back to Kos. We took a walk into town, had coffee with some other American people we met on our trek up the mountain, they have been to New Zealand twice and intend coming back in two years. They spent 8 weeks in the South Island and loved it, they did not rate the North Island which was a shame, we enjoyed our trip around the NI in 2023.
We tried to exchange our Turkish money as we have finished our stopovers in Turkey so we went into a money exchange in Cyprus. She looked at us and said “We do not exchange Turkish money because we are at war with them” I said how sorry we were and that we should have known that already but honestly we had no clue. We did have a bit of a giggle when we left the building.
Since our visit into Lemesos did not provide much exercise we visited the gym on the ship for the first time when we got back and used the treadmills. Fabulous view out over the city as you walked, should have taken advantage of the gym before now.
Neil tried his hand for the first time in the Casino but his pockets came back empty 😆
Today we anchored at sea and got the tenders into Kos. Kos is where Hippocrates had his medical school, it is here that the Hippocratic Oath was first told. We visited his statue in the old town of Kos where we read the following inscription: Hippocrates, Father of Medicine and Health: Let food be thy medicine and medicine by thy food, Walking is man’s best medicine, Prevention is better than cure. The statue is under a famous Plane Tree where Hippocrates would teach his students.
We had lunch in the old town where I tried a Greek dish: stuffed vine leaves. They were stuffed with rice, herbs & spices, they were delicious served with Tzatziki sauce (yoghurt, cucumber, garlic). We ordered garlic bread for two which turned out to be enough for six.
On the ship tonight in the buffet the theme was Greek food, so many choices and only so much room in my belly but we did our best.
Gorgeous sunset tonight going down behind some Greek Isles.Read more