 GREEC & TURKEY itenerary suggestions
> My fiance and i will be going to Greece and Turkey for only two weeks
> (more like 12 days once you count traveling time) at the beginning of
> June for our honeymoon. We fly into Athens, but want to visit some of
> the Greek Islands (probably in the Cyclades and/or Dodecanese) and take
> a ferry to Turkey where we'll eventually end up in Istanbul. We'd like
> to spend at least 2-3 full days in Istanbul, but don't care much about
> staying in Athens. Does anyone have good suggestions of places to
> visit, routes we should take, as well as transport recommendations? We
> enjoy outdoor activities and exploring and aren't very concerned with
> night life or a party scene. I'd like to spend at least a day though at
> a place with a nice beach. I was considering going to Santorini, but
> wasn't sure how far it is by boat to other islands that would serve as
> transfer points to Turkey. From Turkey, i'm not sure of good routes or
> sites to enjoy before arriving in Istanbul. Since this is our
> honeymoon, we will be on more of a moderate than shoestring budget. Any
> help would be much appreciated and boy do i wish we had more time to
> experience it all. Thanks in advance!
If my guess that you are travelling all the way from Virginia, USA, is
correct, then I would have thought that a visit to Athens should be a must.
It is after all there that the Acropolis is, where democracy was invented,
where Socrates, Plato and Aristotle taught, where Aeschylus, Sophocles,
Euripides, Aristophanes et al wrote their plays. In my simplistic way of
thinking, Athens is the cradle of western civilisation.
And it's got the Acropolis, the symbol of Europe.
This is not to say a word against Thessalonica, a place that I have heard
many good reports about, and somewhere that I'm hoping to visit too.
Let me just repeat what others have already said: don't try to cram too much
into your 12 days' break. It might exhaust you more than you had bargained
for.
Henry. | 
