Tuesday 5th July, 2011 All the usual happened breakfast, readied and left the hotel about 1120 hours. It was our plan for today to visit the New Acropolis Museum, a few stops away on the Metro. We were familiar with the journey and arrived with no problem. There were a number of people outside, but mainly groups gathering together before entering. We were security scanned and bags x-rayed before we were allowed to enter the building which is a first in Greece. A small queue for tickets, which are priced at €5 each. The museum has only been open a couple of years and when they were building it they found all sorts of history in the ground. In order not to lose this they have incorporated it in the new building and put see through ... read more

Saturday 2nd July, 2011 We didn't go out again and had an early night after our tiring last two days. Sunday 3rd July, 2011 Had a really good night sleep and eventually stirred at 0945. Breakfast is part of the arrangement with this hotel and is served from 0700 to 1030. All the usual continental stuff. We got ready to go out and left the hotel about 1120. Our objective was a few of the lesser sites that we had tickets for from yesterday. There is a city sightseeing bus stop in the square the hotel is situated, and one was due shortly. So instead of the metro we elected to wait a short while for the bus - we still have a little while to go before the tickets run out - and that way ... read more

Wednesday 29th June, 2011 Like yesterday we had returned and got settled in the room and we didn't bother going out again. Thursday 30th June, 2011 Up for breakfast at the usual time and readied ourselves to go out for a walk. We left at 1045 and ambled along the harbour. We went in to the Old Town via the Arnaldo gate, near the Marine gate, and headed straight into the Archaeological Museum. We had visited it a few days ago but hadn't done the place justice as we were tired at the time. It was well worth the second visit. The museum is higgledy piggledy with rooms all over the place but is located in some wonderful buildings that are part of the street of knights. That in itself makes the place fascinating, but then ... read more

Monday 27th June, 2011 We woke our usual time and went down to breakfast. Our plan for today was to visit Lindos. The buses ran from the other end of town and were quite often, so we had no particular bus in mind. We left the hotel at 1025 and strolled to the bus station. We paid for our bus tickets, €5 each single to Lindos, and after a short wait caught the 11 o'clock bus. The journey was pleasant for us as we haven't been out of the town area since our arrival so we had a chance to view the Rhodes countryside. Lindos is about half way down the island on the eastern coast. The bus was full and people were standing in the aisle by the time we arrived at Lindos. We saw ... read more

Wednesday 22nd June, 2011 cont'd We spent the afternoon on the beach and returned to the room at 5 o'clock. Pat was hungry as it had been a long time since breakfast so we went out around 6 o'clock for dinner. The Aegean restaurant a short way down the road was our choice for this evening. We had a Greek salad, chicken in mushroom sauce and pork fillet in Mavrodafini (a wine) and rosemary sauce. The meal was all a bit more special and a cut above the traditional Greek restaurants in the area. We had a free dessert of Loukamades (honey dough balls) which are gorgeous and with our usual drinks the bill was €31.50, a little more than some of our recent meals on Kalymnos but not expensive and certainly worth it. We popped ... read more