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Old 08-29-2011, 03:34 PM
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Default Greek Islands Summer 2011
After several smaller trips around Europe this spring, we are now travelling the Greek Islands for about 3 weeks.

Highlights are Corfu, Milos, Santorini, Rhodes, Karpathos and Dubrovnik along the way.
The first few leg reports are posted on http://www.flyvans.com
Currently we are on Santorini, leaving for Rhodes tomorrow.

If you've never been, Santorini is definitely one of the must-see places in the world. Despite high expectations, we never expected it to be as beautiful as it turned out to be! Many mediterranean cruises stop here, too BTW.

Some highlight pictures so far:

Hotel Irida, Imerovigli, Santorini


Approaching Santorini airport


Parked on Milos Island


Klima, fishermen village on Milos


Beach on Milos


Apollonia, another fishermen village on Milos


Fort in Kerkira, Corfu.


in the Fort in Kerkira


Lugano airport, Southern Switzerland


Fuel stop in Lugano
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Great message, great memories. Thanks for sharing.
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Default Santorini:
I stopped there on a cruise last year. Indeed it was gorgeous. I notice the airport as we toured the island, but didn't think you could get there in a light plane. Looking at the map it looks like only 100 miles or so from Athens.

Very cool pictures.

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Nice...very nice photos. Thanks for sharing and enjoy the trip.
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Thanks for the memories - I wish we could have flown there in our RV-6A. Your airplane and photos are great.

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Default We absolutely LOVED Santorini!!
Except for navigating the donkey-doo on the walk down to the cruise ship pier...
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Santorini is awesome. It is very laid back other than the days the big cruise ships are in port. We spent a week there earlier this year.

Rhodes is nice too. The old fort is incredible, as is the story of its siege towards the end of the crusades.

The movie "The Guns of Navarrone" was filmed on Rhodes. After you've been, watch the movie on late night TV. You'll recognize quite a few features.
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Default Amazing!
I'd love to take my RV to Europe some day and do an epic tour! Those pics remind me why!
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