Rhodes Islands dep. Greece

Greece – Rhodes – Rhodes City – old town_1994IMG_0235

Greece – Rhodes – Rhodes City – old town_1994IMG_0233

Greece – Rhodes – Rhodes City – harbor_1994IMG_0237

Greece – Rhodes – Rhodes City – Grandmaster of Knights of Rhodes Palace_1994IMG_0231

Greece – Rhodes – Rhodes City – Grandmaster of Knights of Rhodes Palace_1994IMG_0229

Greece – Rhodes – Lindos_1994IMG_0228

Greece – Rhodes – Lindos_1994IMG_0225

GR-94 Greece, Turkey (Ephesus only) bus and cruise trip
Date of travel: Oct 7 – Oct 22, 1994

ITINERARY:
Early in the morning on Oct 7 Lothar takes me to San Diego airport. A flight from San Diego via St. Louis and New York to Athens GREECE where on Oct 8.

In Athens I joined a Globus Tour for a bus trip through mainland Greece visiting and sightseeing: Marathon, Thermopylae and the Meteora area monasteries on the rocky outcroppings. The tour continued to Delphi to hear about the Oracle and see the excavations, then taking a ferry across the Gulf of Corinth to Patras, an important harbor on the Peloponnese Peninsula, and Olympia, the place of famous Olympic Game of antiquity. That was followed by drive to Epidaurus with its 2,300 years old theatre and Nauplia, the first modern capital of Greece. From here to Mycenae with the excavations of the earliest Greek civilisation, ancient Corinth and back to Athens where 3 full days of sightseeing (for strike Acropolis closed).
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