December’s site header is a Greek Orthodox church in the Plaka, or old town, area of Athens. We came across the church as we were trying (not too successfully) to find our way home after dinner on our first night Read More …
Unless specified, all photos were taken using a Canon Eos Rebel T3. I used two lenses, the standard 18-5 mm and a 75-300 mm telephoto. I have used Photoshop CS5.5 to crop and resize the images I’ve used. Over the Read More …
We met lots of people during the vacation, but never really got to know anyone. That is wonderful for an author, because it means I could speculate on who exactly these people were. What was the motivation behind this action? Read More …
We stayed in two hotels and the Queen Elizabeth, which made our travel life easy. No rushing around, packing and unpacking for each port. Instead we unpacked suits and dress clothes in Athens to minimize wrinkles, unpacked everything on the Read More …
The cruise can be broken down into roughly three components. The first five days the ship sailed around the Eastern Mediterranean. During that time we visited four of the Greek Islands (Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini and Crete) and spent one day Read More …
My Cruise into History took place over the first three weeks of October, 2013. We left Canada on October 1 and flew for 17 hours to Athens. With the time change we arrived in Athens airport at 5 pm the Read More …