Wind Star – Kate and Mike

We docked in Rhodes – and could see the old town from the ship.

Its a beautiful walled town, with the walls and several of the buildings dating back to the medieval ages when the Knights Templar ruled here.

The street of the knights

In Kalymnos – we anchored and the water platform was down. We went scuba diving with a local dive centre. Not much to see but good practise. The first dive was called “amphora” – and the sights were…

wait for it….

broken amphora.

The second dive we saw some fish and we also got to see and touch a large sponge. Kalymnos is known for sponge diving. I hadn’t realized that sponges are black. They bleach them after they harvest them.

The crew leading YMCA at the on-deck bbq in Kalymnos

Then a day at sea and I got to walk to the bowsprit. Shame I haven’t seen Titanic.

And the last port, Nafplio, had a ruined castle that you could get a bus up to or climb 999 steps…

Well – in the end we are pretty sure it was more than 999 steps.

There were lovely views down to the harbor and town though.

Two rival ships also in port. The one with the sails is the Royal Clipper and is operated by Star Clippers.

Views from the ship

There used to be a chain across this harbor – which is what this little island was for.

Sailing back to Athens

The sail-away (I can only show short movies as the full length ones are too large for this site).

Our rival sailing ship the Royal Clipper as we sail by.

The crew bid us goodbye on the last night

We have been traveling around Greece. We spent the first night in Athens at the Coral Hotel. We were able to watch the ClubMed 2 and the Wind Star Sail into port together.

We started in Athens.

Kate on the Back Deck

We had dinner on deck the first night and watched the sun set and sailed past the temple of Poseidon. It was very windy. Our salad was properly tossed and blown around.

Sunset

Just after Sunset

We sailed past the Temple of Poseidon. I think he was busy getting ready to release the Krakken.

The first port (Sunday) was Mykonos.

Our ship – the Windstar – in Mykonos harbor

And in Santorini

On Mykenos – we got the tender to shore and a ferry to Delos -an island near Mykonos famous for ancient ruins. Mythology says Delos is the birth place of Apollo and Artemis.

Photos of Mykonos from the ferry to Delos.

Photos of Delos

Second stop – Monday – was Santorini.

Our ship is the sail ship on the right. On

the left is a celebrity cruise ship – itself a relatively “smaller”. View from Santorini looking down into the caldera full of sea.

In Santorini the boat docks at the base of a cliff – and you can get a cable car, donkey or walk up. Most of you won’t need three guesses to work out what Mike proposed….