Vacation

We had a great stay in Istanbul. I would have posted more but the hotel keyboard didn't work the best and I kept getting confused by the i with out a dot above it in the Turkish language and the normal i. Sometimes I wasn't able to log in to websites. We went to many of the site in Istanbul, like the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazar, the Spice Market, we took a ferry acorss the Bosphorus to the Asian side and we did a cooking class. While in Turkey we were quite busy.

We were surprised to learn that tulips are orgininally from Turkey and there are tulips planted everywhere and they all were in blossom. They are so colorful and very beautiful.

On Monday we flew to Athens and then on to Sanotorini. It is early in the tourist season so not everything is open, but it is easy to walk around and the weather has been pleaseant. We are staying in a hotel in Fira overlooking the caldera, about 750 feet up from the sea a top of the cliff. We will be here until Sunday and then we will be heading back to Athens for a couple days before coming home. We won't think about that yet. For today we are going to go to Oia for the day and relax. We hope to post more soon!