The honeymoon thing is very cliché, but those who have lived it know that it is like a medicine after all the marriage rush, and those who have not experienced it will give me the right after they live.. 🙂 Although, if we think that planning for the honeymoon is an important part of the preparations for marriage and that deciding where to go is very tiring, a contradiction arises. /strong> we decided to pass. We did very well.. Because this holiday was a trip abroad with a comfort that does not look like luxury resorts in the country.. In this way, we did not experience the tiringness of foreign trips and the monotony of domestic holiday villages.. In short, this trip was perfect for our honeymoon.. Let me save some of my comments about the trip for last and start telling about the trip.. 🙂
On May 18, 2002, 3 days after we finally got married, we went to Kusadasi by bus to join the ship tour for our honeymoon. After we got our passports stamped, we took a look at the duty-free at the port and boarded the ship.. Our ship was a Greek ship named Aegean-1, and naturally, when we entered, the Greek staff greeted us.. We were communicating with the ship’s personnel by speaking English.. Thank god they didn’t agree that we speak Greek like the French in Paris.. Just like in hotels, after registering at the reception, they gave us the keys to our rooms.. Our room was a very cute room 2 floors below the entrance.. Although it was tiny, it even had a dresser and wardrobe inside. After our luggage arrived, we started to explore the ship with curiosity. There were nearly 300 cabins, 2 restaurants, a swimming pool on the terrace, a cinema, a performance hall, a casino and a disco on the ship.
While we were traveling, we realized that the ship was too secluded and We doubted whether the huge ship would travel to the islands with a maximum of 50 people on board from Kusadasi.. Turns out this ship was constantly rotating.. In other words, the ship mainly gives (Athens) passengers taken from Piraeus Port to Greek islands and Kuşadası, meanwhile, the Turkish group taken from Kuşadası also travels to the Greek islands and the port city of Piraeus. was traveling. When we saw the crowd of people coming in while leaving the port, we understood that the ship would not be secluded at all.. 🙂 Most of the passengers on board were tourists who had come to Greece from Europe or the Far East and wanted to visit the islands, another part were Greeks who wanted to see their own island, and the rest were Turks.. On the other hand, the ship’s personnel consisted of Greeks and Russian girls, with only the Greeks in the top positions.
The staff were very pleasant and helpful.. We were especially surprised that they cleaned the room at least 3 times a day.. During the trip, there was a situation like we break the sheets in our room, they fix it, we break it, they fix it.. 🙂 On the deck and in the restaurant, Russian girls were spinning around us like ‘Would you like this or that’ like propellers?. Fortunately, my wife did not have much contact with the girls due to her honeymoon drunkenness.. 🙂
After leaving Kuşadası, all Turkish passengers gathered in the show hall and asked how to put on life jackets, what to do if the ship starts to sink, and how the women and children will get on the boats first. things have been told. We settled in our room, ate our dinner, then we realized that we arrived at our first stop, Patmos Island.
PATMOS
The view of the island from the ship was so cute.. Patmos was an island with nothing more than a beach with ducks walking on it, a super market with a giant liquor store, a monastery on the hill and cafes under the trees in the market.. Actually, I liked Patmos when I first saw it, but when I saw the other islands, it was overshadowed by them.. 🙂
Our ship anchored in the evening. We returned to our room to get ready for dinner.. The ship was serving as full board.. Meals were served as open buffet in the morning, lunch and dinner.. Also, there was a huge à la carte restaurant on the floor of our room, among those who said that I can’t go to the queue and fill a heap of plates and eat from there.. Meals were the same, both restaurants were free, but it was necessary to enter this hall a bit stylishly.. Actually, it was nicer here, of course, you had to sit with others at huge, huge round tables, and you had to squirm like if the waiter came and brought the main course when your plate was finished.. Anyway, some evenings we ate there, some evenings here.. Food was very good. The taste of the Greeks suited us very well because. In meals, fish, shrimps, baklavas, ice creams, mangoes, bananas, barbecue on the terrace every noon, grilled fish, chicken, chop…. 🙂
Our nights were generally quiet. In the hall where the open buffet service is held, a 15-year-old Russian lolita and a group of two men, one playing the guitar and the other organ, were playing live music at lunch and dinner.. The music was good but the girl managed to get me fed up with the #1 song of my youth by singing “La is la bonita” every five or six songs. 🙂 There was a different show every evening in the show hall after the meals.. As far as I remember, the show of the Russian revue girls and the sirtaki night attracted our attention.. The shows were ending around 11 am, the hall where the open buffet dinner was turned into a disco environment.. On the other hand, we were usually on the deck watching the sea with our drink in our hands at these times.. We are a honeymoon couple or we will be romantic. 🙂
RODOS
We arrived at Rhodes on the morning of the second day of our trip. Even the remote view of the island was quite spectacular.. The middle of the island was surrounded by medieval walls.. Here, as in many cities, there was the concept of old city-new city.. The old town inside the walls was full of historical buildings, mosques, churches, houses, under-tree cafes, and souvenir shops.. In the part outside the walls, there were the houses of the people of Rhodes and the summer cottagers, and in front of them there were hotels and a huge beach.. Except for Santorini, we had the opportunity to swim in all the islands we went to, but since we will go to Fethiye after the cruise, we spent our time visiting and seeing.. Since we are already in May, there was not a temperature that would evoke the feeling of ‘Uff, even if it’s the sea’.. Anyway, we liked Rhodes a lot.. It was a big, modern, green and historical island where everything was intertwined.. We couldn’t see it, but we heard that the nightlife is also very successful.. Frankly, we are very sorry that this island belongs to the Greeks and not ours.
Our ship anchored in the evening.. While we were waving to Rhodes, the ship started to head towards the island of Crete.. In the direction of Crete, the ship wobbled a lot as it sailed from the open sea.. I remember that it was difficult to get close to the railings by staying balanced on the deck at night, and after sticking to the railings, we were startled by the sight of the waves in the sea and immediately fled inside.. The next morning, we overheard the lively conversations of “I vomited, I vomited” throughout the night.. If the sea is sick, why go on a cruise is another matter…
CRETE
The next morning we arrived at the island of Crete. As soon as we arrived, let’s look at the palace ruins that the ship took as an extra tour, at least we went to see what it was like.. We would have done better if we hadn’t gone. Because there was nothing but stone in the area we entered. We marveled at the relic marketing power of the Greeks. It would certainly have been used to reinforce the foundations of constructions by saying that they don’t look like anything, even if it were us…. Crete was a huge city, far from impressive, that should be on an island with its high buildings, big stores, wide roads.. We already arrived early in the morning and left the island around noon.. Maybe there were places that were beautiful that we hadn’t seen.. But if they found the stone tour as an extra tour, we can easily conclude that Crete did not have much of an event.
SANTORINI
Our next destination is the famous Santorini Island To describe this island in one word, that word is fascinating.. It is unlikely that one’s mouth remains open while watching the sunset in Santorini in a beautiful weather.. Santorini was a very interesting candidate.. As our ship approached the island, we saw tiny houses built on steep cliffs.. It was as if a mountainous island was split in half, half of which was submerged, and the other houses remained on the hill.. Therefore, since there was no concept of a port, all cruise ships anchored at a distance of one or two miles to the island, and passengers were transported to the land by small boats.. We also had the job of waiting in line for the boat.. 🙂 Finally, we got on the boats and docked at a small pier. Done? no . It was necessary to go to the island either by horses or by cable car.. We took the cable car because Ahmet did not take kindly to the horse thing.. Although, it cannot be said that he had much fun on the cable car.. When we reached the happy ending and saw the scene, we said to each other that Capon did it.. 🙂
The scenery was so beautiful that we spent half of the time we were on the island taking pictures to always remember these images.. Although, when I looked later, I realized with regret that the magnificence we saw was not reflected enough in the photos.. Let’s have a nap as long as it is. 🙂
We sat at a cafe on the hill in Santorini, drank frappe and said to my wife, ‘What a beautiful twill, what a beautiful twill’. There was already such a slope on the island that it was unlikely that any cafe would be without a view.. I finally discovered that the frothy brown thing that I see Greeks drinking everywhere in tall glasses is iced coffee.
We started to descend in zigzags, saying let’s walk on the descent, accompanied by horses going up and down the path.. The landing road smelled like dung. In addition, the men riding the horses were constantly stopping us, showing our bag and asking for something, but we could not understand what they wanted because they did not speak English.. We reached the bottom in 20 minutes and then we saw that our ship’s magician was a guide and he was trying to collect the herd and put them on the boats with the Aegean-1 banner in his hand.
There was also such an incident on the ship.. You could see the staff performing a magic show in the evening, the guide the next day, and a girl serving drinks at noon in the evening revue show.. Of course, all of the personnel stay on the ship because they are not likely to send them home when their work is done.. I guess the fewer the staff, the less costly they hired people who could do whatever they wanted.. 🙂 We had already started our dinner on deck when the ship anchored and started to sail away from Santorini.. 🙂 As a shrimp maniac, I cannot forget the jumbo shrimps at the buffet that I ate at that dinner…
PIRASE PORT
When we woke up the next morning, we sailed to Piraeus. We found it anchored in the harbor. Piraeus was a port city 2 hours away from Athens.. After getting off the ship, we searched the metro station, wondering if we could have a chance to go to Athens.. But love to those who can find. We finally gave up and decided to visit Piraeus.. We already had 5 hours.. I can’t complain that there was no island feature in Piraeus, because Piraeus was not an island anyway.. 🙂 Anyway, when we said it was here and there, time passed and we went back to our ship.. Piraeus was a mediocre port city with a modern pattern, not a modern one, but a historical pattern, not a historical one, but the beauty of nature…
MIKONOS
Our current goal is to be famous for its gays Mykonos was the island. Mykonos was also an interesting island, not as interesting as Santorini.. This island reminded me a bit of a basement. The cafes lined up in the part of the marina, the marina in the basement and the cafes in front of it where mostly middle-aged people and families hang out, and the more modern style cafes and bars in the back of the island with young people reminded Türkbükü.. While we were drinking our beers by the marina, we saw a flock of people getting off the ferry.. It was a Friday and as far as we understood, those who got off the ferry were Greeks who came to their summer houses or hotels for the weekend and the average age was quite low.. As it started to get dark, the tables in front of the bars in the interior started to fill up slowly and the island started to get even more lively.. The young population on the island was remarkable.
We left the island around 10 pm and returned to our ship and the ship began to sail towards Rhodes Island.. We could not fully understand the reason why we went to Rhodes island again, but I think it was a situation related to the changing passenger mass of the ship.. When we woke up in the morning we found ourselves on the Island of Rhodes. When a person goes for the second time, he immediately gets into the air and we come back to Rhodes.. 🙂 Although Rhodes is a very large island, it was not difficult to find a place to visit.. The extra tours organized on the ship were also guiding us in this regard.. We saw that they were selling a tour called the Lindos tour, so we took the bus ourselves to Lindos.. There was a famous castle in Lindos, but it was the turquoise sea that caught my attention the most.. During the tour, it was my first time to swim, but unfortunately we did not have a swimsuit inside.. 😥
I understood that this place was an event of the sea, when I saw the types with beach bags on the bus, but it was too late.. After visiting the bazaar of Lindos within the walls, looking at the sea and sighing. After we went to the ship and ate all kinds of meat prepared at the barbecue on the terrace and rested for a while, we wandered around the old town of Rhodes, sat on the benches under the huge trees and watched the artists and the tourists posing for them, bought a lot of souvenirs and returned to our ship in the evening and said goodbye to Rhodes…
That night was unfortunately our last night on the ship. Like all the times you didn’t want it to pass, 5 days passed in a flash.. The next morning, we stopped by Patmos Island for a short time and returned to Kusadasi at around 1:00 am.
Greek islands in general are really impressive and must-see places.. Probably because I liked Rhodes, Santorini and Mykonos the most among the things I saw, my memories of these islands were more prominent in my memory.. Beyond the beauties of the places I visited, the cruise was a completely different holiday.. If I have the opportunity again, I would love to see other countries by ship.
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