Modern Ruins
The sailing trip turned out to be a great time, though technically we were only under sail for about 10 minutes. Damn combustion engines.
The boat was filled with James and I, an American couple, an ex-Bosnian girl who now lives in San Francisco, and six Australian guys, all around our age (plus or minus a few years).
Some of the trip highlights included snorkelling in incredibly clear Aegean (or possibly Mediterranean) waters, watching the Australia-Japan World Cup match in the living room of a small house in the village of Simena (the Aussies insisted, and our crew found a small TV with cable for us to watch) and playing texas hold 'em with pebbles (the boat had no chips on board so we swam ashore and each filled our pockets with flat, roundish stones and used them as chips).
One snag in the itinerary came when we were supposed to go to "Pirate's Cove", a bar in a small, remote bay. The hitch was that the bar no longer exists. Apparently it got shut down a while ago, but for some reason they took us there anyways! It was essentially a junkyard. The building was completely dismantled and piled in heaps on the ground. There were goats and chickens wandering around the wreckage, and there was an old goat skull sitting on a rusty beer fridge. It was weeeeeird. We figured this must have been part of the archaeological tour material... if you think about it, we were touring ancient ruins hundreds of years before they became ancient! Yeah, we're trendsetters.
We managed to make the best of it though, by building our own makeshift bar out of scrap wood and some old chairs. For some reason though, this greatly upset the captain of our boat (who spoke no English), and he tried to take off and leave us there! Fortunately, cooler heads eventually prevailed, and we abandoned our makeshift bar and returned to the boat.
We depart for Cappadocia in about an hour, and from there it's on to Istanbul and beyond!
The boat was filled with James and I, an American couple, an ex-Bosnian girl who now lives in San Francisco, and six Australian guys, all around our age (plus or minus a few years).
Some of the trip highlights included snorkelling in incredibly clear Aegean (or possibly Mediterranean) waters, watching the Australia-Japan World Cup match in the living room of a small house in the village of Simena (the Aussies insisted, and our crew found a small TV with cable for us to watch) and playing texas hold 'em with pebbles (the boat had no chips on board so we swam ashore and each filled our pockets with flat, roundish stones and used them as chips).
One snag in the itinerary came when we were supposed to go to "Pirate's Cove", a bar in a small, remote bay. The hitch was that the bar no longer exists. Apparently it got shut down a while ago, but for some reason they took us there anyways! It was essentially a junkyard. The building was completely dismantled and piled in heaps on the ground. There were goats and chickens wandering around the wreckage, and there was an old goat skull sitting on a rusty beer fridge. It was weeeeeird. We figured this must have been part of the archaeological tour material... if you think about it, we were touring ancient ruins hundreds of years before they became ancient! Yeah, we're trendsetters.
We managed to make the best of it though, by building our own makeshift bar out of scrap wood and some old chairs. For some reason though, this greatly upset the captain of our boat (who spoke no English), and he tried to take off and leave us there! Fortunately, cooler heads eventually prevailed, and we abandoned our makeshift bar and returned to the boat.
We depart for Cappadocia in about an hour, and from there it's on to Istanbul and beyond!
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