We visited three of the Grecian Islands, Samos, Patmos and Santorini (we'll save that one for last). Patmos is the closest island to Turkey, and it is here that St. John was exiled and wrote the Book of Revelation. The island is pretty nice, but it is really windy! We spent two nights on Patmos. We reached the island by ferry after flying from Athens to the one room airport of Samos, which was beautiful. We relaxed on the beach in Samos for a few hours, before catching the ferry. I did some drawing and Ryan did some reading. Here a few pics.
This is someone's back yard!
Here is one of my drawings
Beautiful water!
So after enjoying Samos for a bit, we ventured to the dock, to catch our ferry. After the cars and people were unloaded, we got on. I had envisioned something much smaller than our boat, and the cargo area that we had to walk through smelt like diesel and fish...mmmmm!
View of Samos Bay from the dock
Our boat
Super excited to be on this boat!
One of the many islands we ferried past
One of the bays we stopped at along the way to Patmos
Beautiful water!
So after enjoying Samos for a bit, we ventured to the dock, to catch our ferry. After the cars and people were unloaded, we got on. I had envisioned something much smaller than our boat, and the cargo area that we had to walk through smelt like diesel and fish...mmmmm!View of Samos Bay from the dock
Our boat
Super excited to be on this boat!
One of the many islands we ferried past
Patmos
We arrived at Patmos freezing, because we did not wear appropriate boat riding clothes.
Our first glimpse of Patmos
The famous St. John's Monastery is on top of the hill
The Bay
We hiked up to the cave where St. John lived and wrote Revelation. This is the building they've built around the cave, which is part of the monastery.
I pretty much love mosaics
This is the entrance to the cave. It is considered a sacred place, so no cameras allowed. Inside, it is a cave with an alter, chairs, and a lot of random gold stuff. There is a rock shelf where John's scribe wrote his account of Revelation, and there are indentations in the rock where John is said to have slept and a place that he put his hand to stand up.
Now, unfortunately we could not take photos any where near the monestary, so we do not have pictures to show you. We did see the skull of St. Thomas, lots of old goblets, paintings and monks!
These are the views as we walked up the mountain to the monastery.
Our hotel! The owner has a restaurant around the corner from William and Mary in VA!
Bye Patmos!
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