Life: This is docking at Istanbul, Turkey. (week 22,151/365,jreyes)

Life: This is docking at Istanbul, Turkey. (week 22,151/365,jreyes)
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Day 6 - Today was a full day at sea. We docked in Istanbul at around 4:00pm. Istanbul was amazing. There were plenty of mosques in the city. Istanbul is huge. There is roughly 16 million people who live in and around Istanbul. Turkey is a huge country which bridges Europe and Asia together. The silk road goes through here. But that may be some future expedition. Anyways, I remember being pretty stoked about going to Turkey for the first time. At the time, I wanted to eat a turkey sandwich in Turkey.

Life: This is the Greek temple of Poseidon, Sounion. (week 21,150/365,jreyes)

Life: This is the Greek temple of Poseidon, Sounion. (week 21,150/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Day 5 - We arrived in Pireaus, Greece. It is the main port of entry to Athens. This is Sounion, which is Poseidon's temple. My family went on to visit Corinth, while I went on a longer tour of Sounion and the Acropolis. This temple overlooks the sea and it has gorgeous views of the Agean Sea. Anyways, I also took some funny I am crushing Posieden's temple photos.

Here is the wikipedia for Sounion.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounion

Life: This is some statue with a black bathing suit and a bird on it's head somewhere in Croatia. (week 21,149/365,jreyes)

Life: This is some statue with a black bathing suit and a bird on it's head somewhere in Croatia. (week 21,149/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Day 4 - We went on our first shore excursion to Split, Croatia. We left Venice last night after dinner. And in the next morning we arrived at Split, Croatia. We traveled to Šibenik, Croatia for the tour. Here is the Wikipedia about it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ibenik

I don't know why, but I really found this figure funny. Croatia is a beautiful country. It is mostly by the water so it has gorgeous panoramic views. It is being visited by a lot of tourists these days, but that's good because it moves the Croatians up. It is a state from the former socialist state Yugoslavia.

Life: This is a watermelon appetizer. (week 21,148/365,jreyes)

Life: This is a watermelon appetizer. (week 21,148/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Day 3 - This was my first fancy dinner on the cruise. I ordered this delicious watermelon appetizer. The cruise food was excellent. The service was great. You don't really have to worry about anything when you are on a cruise. I guess that is why it caters to a lot of older retired folk who travel. I met some really cool spunky old Americans on this cruise. You know they have time and obviously have the money to travel and see the world. Anyways, I could see that some people were still unhappy or still worried about crap in their life America. I always let go, and live by the moment of the travel. But I wonder why people were still unhappy or rather complained. What was their reason for such feelings? I mean they were on a cruise in Europe. I guess some things are just not enough for some people. I guess some people can never be happy, even if they are on vacation in Europe. That to me was profound and really sad. For me, I was enjoying this watermelon appetizer livin' it up.

Life: This is a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. (week 21,147/365,jreyes)

Life: This is a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. (week 21,147/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Day 2 - I woke up @ 5:45am this day to try to explore the city of Venice in the early morning. I took some nice shots of St. Mark's square and the main canal. What was crazy to me was after about 2 hours, St . Mark's filled out to some 10,000 people within 3 hours after I woke up. The previous evening rained a little bit, but this next day turned out to be a beautiful day in Venice. My family wanted to experience the gondola ride so we asked our hotel where we could hire someone for such a ride. He quickly made a couple a of phone calls and within 30 min. he said a gondola operator would swing by the hotel to pick us all up. The gondola ride lasted about 45 min. through the canals of Venice. This was really a cool experience. Too bad the gondola guy didn't sing "O solo mio." That would have been epic.

Life: This is a water taxi in Venice, Italy. (week 21,146/365,jreyes)

Life: This is a water taxi in Venice, Italy. (week 21,146/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Day 1 - We took a water taxi from the Marco Polo Airport in Venice to our hotel called Hotel Columbuna. This was an awesome way experience to see Venice for the first time! There was a little bit of a delay in Frankfurt, Germany. The Frankfurt airport is crazy confusing and under construnction. There are 3 levels and we didn't find the tram from concourse A to B,C,D,E so we walked like 3/4 of a mile to concourse B. Anyways, the airplane landed in Venice and by this time I was happy to take my first shots of Venice.

Life: This is a flight from SFO to Frankfurt. (week 21,145/365,jreyes)

Life: This is a flight from SFO to Frankfurt. (week 21,145/365,jreyes)
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This boarding pass starts the 2 week European cruise with my family. Aaah good times. I really was not expecting a lot from this trip other than just seeing cool places with my family. I wanted to continue the project365 while I was at these cool places. My mom pretty much booked everything and she loves cruises so I said sure why not.

Here is the itinerary

SFO - Frankfurt - Venice -Split Croatia - Athens/Piraeus - Istanbul - Mykonos - Kusadasi - Santorini - Katakolon - Venice - Frankfurt - SFO.