We
arrived in Mykonos, Greece at a little before 7. It was just getting light. Looking ashore in the gray pre dawn it looked
like all of the buildings here are painted white as opposed to the rainbow of
colors we had seen in Italy. Gerri read
last night that it was 1.5 miles into town and that a shuttle will be available
for $10 or 8 €. The Princess Patter said
it was a 35 minute walk.
When
I checked my GPS, there was a cache less than 500' from our balcony, named Port
of CALL Mykonos. I was hopeful that it was still in place and that I could find
it. It was gray, cold and had started to
sprinkle rain as I walked toward the cache location. I found it easily, a film can at a telephone
booth. I signed the log with some relief
at finding my first cache in Greece.
Just
outside the dock area there was a kiosk offering rides to downtown Mykonos
on "Water Bus" for 2 €. It was an 8 minute ride and departed every
hour from downtown. I took that into
town. I set my course on the next
closest cache, a virtual cache named "Island Windmill." I was surprised that I had a GPS reading all
the way. Straight line to the cache was
about 1100 feet. I walked through
streets that were from 2 to 4 feet wide and wound around with a lot of
intersections. Many of the ground floor
were shops and the upper floors appeared to be homes. I found the coordinates of the virtual cache
and wrote down the required information.
I then made my way back to the harbor by pretty much the same winding
streets I had traveled before.
There
were several restaurants scattered around and one had an Internet Cafe. Internet cost 1 € for 15 minutes using their
computer. I asked and wireless was
free. I logged my caches, checked
e-mail, caught up on Facebook and logged the two caches that I found. I also went on the Nevada DMV site to apply
for a duplicate driver's license, but the site was unavailable. The DMV site was supposed to be from 2 Am
until midnight. I had forgotten to allow
for the time difference, so I didn't get that chore done. I did send an e-mail to Curtis with all the
information and asked him to go on line and order the duplicate. Hopefully we can get it in the mail before we
get back to Florida. I also loaded some
pictures from around Mykonos onto Facebook.
At
noon I caught the water bus back to the ship, all aboard time was set for
1:30. The ship was scheduled to sail for
Istanbul at 2. When I got back I found a
note from Gerri that she was out walking around the ship. I went to the Trident Grill and had a hotdog
for lunch. Gerri was on our balcony when
I returned to the room. She hadn't seen
my note telling her where I went. We
sailed a little late, there were some passengers that didn't get back to the
ship at the stated boarding time. I
don't know if they made it by sailing time or were left behind.
When
the ship pulled away from the dock I went up to the fantail on the 16th floor
to watch Mykonos fade into the distance.
It was cold and windy so I didn't stay out long.
We
had several things we wanted to do this evening. We got dressed and went to the Club 6. Every day they feature different hors
d'ouvres for Platinum and Elite passengers.
We met our friend Jayne there and visited for awhile. Then Del and Kay from Tucson came by and we eventually
worked our way to the party being given by the Captain for returning Captain's
Circle passengers.
After
short speeches by the Captain and others they introduced the three couples on
this cruise that have spent the most time at sea. These three couples all had over 1000 days
cruising. There were also door prizes
given out, we didn't win any.
We
went to our regular dinner seating and I think this was the first time all the
couples at both the tables in our corner were there. After dinner we went to the Vista lounge to
see a country western show. We were too
tired to make it through the first song.
I
thought this was a very good day. I
found two caches in a country I had never visited before. Mykonos, in my opinion, was far and away the
most interesting place we have visited so far on this cruise. This town had an
entirely different atmosphere and was unlike
the villages and large cities in Spain, France and Italy. It was also the first place we docked that
had easy access to the town. It was too
bad that we had such a short time there.
Tonight
we are sailing to Istanbul, Turkey. We
have no tours planned.
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