Friday, October 22, 2010

The trip to Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Cyprus, Turkey and Greeece

Joe standing on the starting line of the original site of the Olympics in Olympia Greece
A view from our ship of the port in Marmaris Turkey
A walk along the beach area in Limassol Cyprus
In front of an awesome Byzantine / medieval castle in Cyprus
Mount Vesuvius-volcano- in the background while standing in the main courtyard in Pompeii
Part of the stadium of Pompeii
An evening sunset in Naples
On top of the active volcano on Nea Kemeni Greece. It's a short sail from Santornini.
Joe on the streets of Savona walking by a nursery
Looking through an opening from a castle in Savona Italy

Walking down the lane to the opening out to the main area of the Olympics. All athletes ran through this to get to the arena. Dated 776 B.C. WOW!

Our dinner companions on the ship from Long Island, New York
Joe in front of a real Greek Cafe...........duh
In front of one of a thousand arches in Olympia

Sunrise in Santorini, Greece
After hiking up to thevolcano site, then swimming out to an island that had thermal springs from our sail boat, we actually hiked up the trail to the town in Santorini. It beat standing in line for two hours for the cable car or riding the goofy mules or donkeys!

After eating chocolate gellato. Cruise ships down below where we started our hike up.
Santorini Greece
A look out across the volcano to the rest of our tour group to the site. Joe, myself and a guy from England were the only English speakers so the tour guide would give us info them send us on up while she did the rest in Greek, French , Italinan and Spainsh. We liked the fact that we could just go on our own pace....which is faster than the rest of them. Europeans are out of shape overall.
A back street in Turkey
Turkish Stop sign
One legged women going down to dinner!
Yes, Joe got the pretty camel and I got the dufus with a dirty saddle blanket!
Joe camel??
1st step pyramid in Egypt King Koser in Saqqara
I could have lent the Sphinx part of MY nose!
One of my best shots!
Joe and the wild camel dudes near the pyramids in Giza
Sunrise in Alexandria Egypt

One of nine million fountains in Messina Sicily
The pregnant women in Pompeii that you see on Discovery channel....how cool
The seats at the stadium in Pompeii
Mount Vesuvius in background after leaving Pompeii on the way back to Naples Italy
Funny signs in Savona Italy
Ahhhh...the Swiss Alps. We left Munich Germany and flew over these to get to Italy