Writing, fatshion, me: Aegean Cruise

On the Saturday of our holiday we were in Kusadasi in Turkey. We had talked about getting off the boat and going to Ephesus, because my mum and stepdad and I would have liked to see the Biblical stuff, but my stepdad's friend told him it's not very mobility friendly so we decided against it. Maybe in the future we'll get there, but we decided it wasn't a priority. So we stayed on the ship. My stepdad was feeling a lot better.

We didn't do much all day! I think we had sandwiches again for lunch, and I had a banana daiquiri at about 1pm which was only okay. My stepdad was taking lots of photos from Deck 10 because there were good views all round the ship, but I hadn't actually been up there! Lee and I went inside to the coffee shop about 4pm again to get ourselves out of the sun, I'm really glad we did that a few times because it was nice! I had a macaron, too, and took some back for my mum and stepdad. They weren't free but they were only about a pound each so it was fine!

My mum and I had prosecco with raspberry liqueur in it which was delicious! Then we went back to the cabins to get showered and dressed for tea. Each previous night we had heard the bing bong of the ship announcement but hadn't heard the actual announcement because it was just outside in the corridors. But on this night, the captain broadcast into everyone's cabins. We were due to be in Santorini on Sunday - which the four of us were looking forward to - but the weather was stormy there apparently and the captain to decided to take us to Patmos instead! How do you even do that?? Do you just ring up Patmos?? We hadn't even heard of it, either, it was not on our Greek island radar at all! But we could go to Santorini at another point. It really didn't matter that much!

For tea, we went to Gallery 47, which was a free restaurant but you had to be dressed up for it. The literature kept saying that it was best to go there between 6 and 6.30 because they didn't do reservations and it got busy quickly. We felt that that was too early to eat, though, so we decided to go about 7pm and chance it, and if we couldn't get in we would go to the buffet restaurant. Lee and I got there just before 7pm and went straight in, there was no problem at all! My mum and stepdad were only a little bit behind us.

There was plenty of choice and even quite a few vegetarian choices so I was happy. I went for caprese salad, aubergine parmigana, and a trio of tiramisu. It was all so yummy! We shared a bottle of wine which was lovely. Afterwards we went outside to look at the water and the moon for a little bit, and we had a couple of drinks outside too. It was warm, but dark.

Finally we went inside to the atrium bar and I think I had another bellini before bed. It was a nice and relaxing day. In the evening I was wearing my dotted dress from Yours, it's a lovely dress for holidays and means I don't have to wear tights or anything underneath!

Sign from the ship

Banana daiquiri, which I thought was only okay so didn't have another one. My stepdad liked them, though, he had a few

Another day, more sunbathing and sitting in the shade

Looking down into the atrium again at 4pm. I really liked this area of the boat but I was glad our cabins were well away from it because it was loud and busy!