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Published: August 8th 2011
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We met Ali in the Theatre at 8:30am for her to walk us from the ship to the Turkish Bath. The Turkish Bath was interesting. Firstly we all got in our bathers and made our way in this big marble sauna thing where we all sat, awkwardly for about 5minutes before someone suggested an icebreaker. We went round saying our full names, favour colour and whether you were single/taken etc. It was abit lame but it took away the awkwardness. We were sitting in this sauna for about 15minutes before the this big fat, hairy, sweaty guy in a towel came in and told us to come out and the poured water over us then we went through (this was in a group) and we layed on a marble bench where he used this exfoliator glove thing all over then we had to turn over then made our way to rince ourselves off, then another guy was there and he soaped you all up and did a very brief massage then we had to shower off and we got wrapped up in towel things and given apple tea. It certainly was an experience.
After this we headed down to the bazaar.
We bought a few things. I bought a ring, a plate and a candle holder, so cute, a necklace and a shot glass. I got proposed to while walking around and went into a few other shops and people kept giving me free things. It was great.
We made our way back to the boat and had some lunch then made our way to the top deck and front of the boat to sunbake.
We spent like two hours here. While we were doing it there was an announcement for people to head to where we were as we were about to head through the heads, the closest point where Turkey and Greece neally meet. So we were layed there in our bathers with all these people taking pictures (not of us, hopefully, but still).
After we came back to our rooms, got ready and headed down to the theatre where we met the rest of the group for disembarking for Patmos.
We got off on to tender boats and to the shore. We got off those and onto a coach for our tour of Patmos. We went up to the top of the mountain which is about 250 odd
metres above sea level. The views were amazing. We walked though the houses for a bit then back to the bus. Then we headed up to the world heritage site of The historic centre with thte monastery of Saint John the Theologian and the cave of the apocalypse. It where ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
After that we caught the bus back to the shops at the port and got a free icecream from our tour guide. We had that, had a brief walk around those shops then jumped back on the tendor boat to the ship.
We had a cocktail party organised for tonight so we got ready for that, ran and had some dinner then went there. We sat around having a few drinks before eventually heading back to the disco in hopes of something better than we found the previous night.
Well, it was a little better as both our contiki group and the other contiki group on board made the effort of going as for some, three off our tour, it was their last night as they were staying in Santorini and not cruising the last night back to Athens with us.
We drank the night away, laughing and dancing.
Quite a lot left but about 8 of us made our way ate about 2:45am to reception where they ordered room service pizza to the seats there. The lady at reception was lovely and didn't mind us sitting there. I guess she probably figured if we were there making noise we weren't somewhere else bothering other people doing it.
We sat waiting for the pizzas, eating them and talking until about 4:45am when we decided it was time to head to bed. We had to be up early for our docking in Crete in the morning... only 4 or so hours from then.
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Carl
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Single/taken and favourite colour doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the "traffic light" system we had on the GS09! Remember Jerry being the rainbow light?! lol x