Day 8 September 16 - Rhodes Greece

Today we are in Rhodes, a Greek island that has about 120,000 people living here with about half in the town of Rhodes. Again there are some ancient ruins here but we won't be visiting them today. We will go into walk around the part of town that has a wall around it from centuries ago. There are a couple of other cruise ships here to it will probably be busy again today.

We went ashore and walked inside the walled area of the city. Most of the area now is designed to get tourists to spend their money. There are lots of shops selling souvenirs as well as restaurants galore offering all kinds of Greek cuisine. The city itself seems like a mixture of what Athens and Mykonos has but most of the streets inside the walled in area are made of some kind of rock. Some of the walking areas are made from individual beach rocks.

We spent a couple of hours inside doing some exploring, a little shopping as well as visiting the local agricultural museum. Indeed an interesting little side trip.

A lovely dinner of braised salmon followed by cherries jubilee for me and short ribs and a domestic & imported cheese platter for Gladys we went to the top deck to check the sunset. It didn't disappoint as you can see from the photos below which I had to include. Our ship was heading directly into the sunset.

Off to Santorini Tomorrow. We have to be on the go at 8:00 to catch out excursion.

Panoramic view of the city from the cruise ship.

The next 3 photos show the panoramic view above split up into 3 photos. 

Part of the city from east side.

City from mid ship

City to the right

An entrance to the walled part of the city.

You aren't far in before they have the tourists.

A photo overlooking the central part of the city. Lots of little shops and restaurants.

Here's Gladys picking a lime - a forbidden fruit from inside the museum.

A small beach near our ship.

An urn from inside the agricultural museum from about 250 BC.

A kneepad for wood working from the same era.

Some rounded altars and headstones from 250 BC.

Inside the museum centre.

A Museum hall showing plates from various peoples from 2000+ years ago.

Interesting materials on this street.

Another street with various types of transportation.

Many ways to get around here!

Another winding street.

Narrow laneway here.

Tricky walking around here.

Another back alleyway.

Shopping area.

Here's a little boat we picked up today - one of the many yachts around the Mediterranean!

Rhodes in our rear view mirror!

This is Gladys after the sun had set. It's much windier than it looks on the water.