Pics of our cruise with Urs and Iris, Turkey and Greece June, 2014

The new airport at Izmir in Turkey

This is the beautiful bagage collection area, but we waited 45 minutes for our bags to turn up!

Welcome from Iris and Urs

Welcome drinks

Evening bar-b-que for German speaking guests at the Setur Marina in Kusadasi

Urs and Iris

The inside of the Volvo D2 motor in Urs's Bavaria 40, after 12 years and 1720 hours. Amazingly clean!

Elisabeth and Iris

Setur Marina, Kusadasi

From a restaurant looking towards the cruise ship wharf.

One of the beaches in Kusadasi

Outdoor gym by the shore in Kusadasi

Oleander

A hand full of peace!

The bus station in Selcuk

On the bus on the way to visit Sirince

Sirince

Sirince

Multi lingual menu.

Returning to Selcuk

Looking up to the Castle or Citadel at Selcuk

Entrance of the ruins of the Basilica of St John the Evangalist

The tomb of St John

Baptismal bath

Looking back over the ruins.

Model of the original church as it was before being destroyed by an earthquake.

Looking up to the citadel from the Basilica

View from near the Citadel

Water cistern

This was originally a church but was converted by the Turks into a water cistern

Back at Selcuk, I believe these are pigeon houses.

Resort hotel on the road back to Kusadasi

Back at the harbour in Kusadasi

Departing Kusadasi

Coastguard boat, not a very good example!

Elisabeth on the wheel. The back of the shirt says "Work less"!

The skipper

Heading for Chios in Greece.

Unfinished harbour in Chios. It has been like this for about thirty years.

Looking down over the harbour, with Turkey in the background.

Orthodox church.

Samoa in Chios

A well kept sectret in Chios. A very good restaurant.

The old fortified city at Chios

Another church

with a beautiful courtyard.

Again Greek orthodox.

Back at the old city walls.

Old wind mills on the shore.

Disused mill stones.

A catamaran,

with an original propulsion system. The chain is missing at the moment and there is now an outboard motor.

Monument near the entrance of the main commercial harbour.

Commercial harbour.

Street scene in Mesta. This is one of the Mastic villages in the south of the island of Chios.

Orthodox church in Mesta

Down town Mesta

Tunnel like streets.

More of Mesta

Ice Cream vendor.

Pirgi, another mastic village.

Here the houses are plastered, first with a dark mortar, then with a lighter one.

While the mortar is still wet the designs are scratched into the top layer to expose the lower layer.

Most of the designs are quite intricate.

More of Pirgi

One of two churches.

Here is the other church.

Entry to the church.

Inside

The town square at Pirgi

Well used bus ex Southern Germany!

These are the mastic trees. The sap is harvested to produce the mastic, which has many uses.

A close fit for the large bus in the next tiny town.

View of a beach from the bus window.

Back in Chios

View taken from "Samoa" as we depart the harbour.

Looking back towards the harbour where we were.

Elisabeth

Entering the harbour at Inousses,

with a mermaid to welcome us.

Harbour at Inousses

Statue of a shipping magnate who is a benefactor to the town.

Inousses

Another yacht entering the harbour.

The south coast looking east.

Back in the harbour.

The coast to the west.

Mmm!

Iris.

Beautiful Bougainvillea

An old windmill converted into a house.

Late afternoon in the harbour.

Departing Inousses.

Heading north towards  Lesvos.

Entering the passage leading to Gera Bay which seems to be a crater lake.

Our anchorage in Skala Loutron,

with beautiful clean warm water.

Looking towards Loutra from our anchorage.

Idyllic

Next morning raising the anchor.

Buzzed by the customs boat,

a hard bottom inflatable with two 200 hp Mercury outboards.

Under way again,

accompanied by dolphins.

Approaching Turkey just west of Ayvalik.

Ouch!

An old monastry on Cunda Island

We spent the last evening on anchor behind this peninsula,

but didn't go swimming!

Another sunset

The next morning we motored to the Setur marina at Ayvalik.

The entrance to the marina.

Migros Turkey!

We then took a tour of the old town.This was originally settled by the Greeks but was given to Turkey after the first world war.

Traditional Turkish charter boat.

One of Iris' sidelines.

More tourist boats.

The old town.

One horse power.

One of the local moschees.

One way of delivering a fridge.

These ducks had made themselves at home under a disused truck.

View from the hill looking down on the marina at the left

and the entrance to the harbour to the right.

Last evening apero.

Choosing our evening meal.

Farewell dinner with Urs and Iris.

Back at the airport at Izmir

No trouble finding a seat in the waiting room. Note the power points for charging computers of phones etc.

Take off!

Looking down on Izmir.

Links to further photos on Greece

or Turkey