http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/RoseByTheWater/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from RoseByTheWater en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:13:11 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:13:11 +0000 Alright so I arrived in Turkey last Thursday. It was quite an experience walking into the airport in Istanbul talk about a meeting of two cultures. There were Turkish women wearing tanktops and Turkish women walking around in Burqas spelling. What a contrast. I finally made it into Ankara and waltzed into the embassy around 5 oclock. Everyone was pretty shocked that I had the resourcefull http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Central-Anatolia/Ankara/blog-406821.html Ok so it's been a while since I've written...I'm sorry So I guess I'll start with Santorini even though that was a week ago. Becca and I took a 9 hour ferry ride to Santorini which arrived at 2 in the morning. I was sooooo happy to get out of Athens it's just too dirty. We didn't realize that the boat had docked almost until it was leaving as they didn't make any announcement so we were ru http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-406817.html So today was another fun filled day. I'm pretty happy because I've kept more occupied than I thought I would. I'm starting to run out of things to do though so next week will be interesting. We leave for Santorini tomorrow and I've decided that instead of heading back on the ferry with Becca I'm going to move on to Crete for a day or so. I've heard it's very authentic with people living in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-403089.html Today was exhausting but wonderful. I guess it's not really today as I've been traveling for the past two days..... I arrived in Greece this morning slightly shellshocked by the fact that I'm actually here. What an adventure On the flight I was surrounded by honeymooners all going to the islands and made friends with a couple of them. It was actually quite hysterical because on our flight http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-402340.html