Tuesday 7 September 2010
It is sunny again this morning. There is a non-excursion into Patmos this morning but I said last night that I didn’t want to go.
Patmos has been a place of pilgrimage ever since the discovery that this small, rocky island is where St.John the Divine is said to have dictated the text of “Revelations” to his pupil Prochoros in AD95. In AD1088 the monk Christodoulos Latrenos founded a great, fortified monastery in honour of St. John and it has a place of scholarship and religious enlightenment every since.
Sandy got up and had his coffee and then said he was going with Kel & Liz. He left and I got up and went to have my breakfast. I came back and did a bit of washing and then went up onto the 8th deck to read.
The excursion people left at 7am to go to the Monastery of St. John and the Grotto.
They had to be back on board by 11am as we were sailing to Kusadasi, which is 48 nautical miles.
We had our lunch and then just hung around waiting for our time to go. Sat in the cabin for a while and did some sewing and then Wally & Helen came in for a drink before we left.
The ship docked at Kusadasi about 3 and we left about 3.30 to go into the town. It was a short walk and it was hot but the cool wind kept it cooler. We have to be back on board for 9pm as we set sail for Rhodes, a distance of 140 nautical miles.
We did some shopping and had an ice cream. We came back to the ship by 5.45 and our dinner is down for 7 in the restaurant.