Many people have asked us how we chose Greece for our vacation. It started with an article, from of all places, Cooking Light magazine. Readers voted for the most relaxing vacation and it happened to be a Star Clippers cruise through the Greek Isles. I showed the article to Eric and we both thought it sounded fantastic. I then requested a brochure from Star Clippers, and we were hooked. So we booked our cruise and bought our plane tickets back before Greece's economic crisis. Around March, we started hearing news reports on NPR and thought it was interesting that we never really heard much about Greece in the news. The situation intensified, strikes started occuring, and people asked us if we were going to cancel our trip. No way! We worked really hard to be able to take this trip, and we were determined to go. It has been an amazing trip and experience, and we're both glad that we came. Are we worried that today's strike will continue and prevent us from getting back to Athens? Sure. (Well, I am, but not Eric. I think he'd be happy to stay on Naxos a little longer.) But these are the situations that add that extra layer of intrigue to the trip (along with How did my luggage end up in Rhodes for 4 days?, and Why were we in Amsterdam when that wasn't part of the plan?) For now, we enjoy this amazing island and hope that all of you are doing well. And now to blog about the cruise....
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