Kusadasi & Patmos

Woke up at 8, having breakfast at the Taverna by the pool. Following we disembarked at our second port.

Kusadasi Turkey: We were escorted to a cycle cart - then transferred to another which took us into a specific jeweller in the mall. This is where we viewed lots of laced hand made rings - exclusive to Turkey. Will bought his wife a nice holiday ring. However through the day we were caught at many jewellers who really push you to buying point (but we resisted)! Suddenly we found ourselves telling fibs to get out of those shops such as we bought a house and have a mortgage back home, etc etc.
We went to a cafe & Will had a Turkish Coffee (sludgey - i think they brew it in the cup!) & Meredith had a milkshake - though no surprise they owned the jewelery store next door so yet again ... sucked in!! They had us try Turkish Apple Tea which is beautiful. While the salesman kept reducing the price really trying to get us to buy, but yet again our 'new house' came back to the rescue. We headed back to port where we stopped at a sweets shop & Will bought some mixed Turkish Delight. We boarded again, leaving Kusadasi.
We sat up on Sun Deck, Will went and took some photos on the upper level. While Meredith baked in the sun for a while til the strong winds picked up, she had a couple of French girls who decided to sunbake beside her in their finest or least should we say - and still had troubles keeping the minimum on!! Shortly after we headed to lunch in the restaurant again meeting 2 other couples from the USA - they were from a church group in the USA & go on 3 tours each year! This time they were travelling around to see the seven churches from the book of Revelation. During lunch we passed through the straight of Samos, where Turkey & Greece are at their closest. It was cold & windy outside, so after lunch headed back down for a nap so we would be rested for Patmos and the evening's entertainment.
Patmos: we anchored & transferred to the island by tender boats, better than the last ones! Went for a walk around the town - many stands and kiosks, lots of clothing. Went a little into the back streets - it was hard to feel like you weren't in someones backyard! Plenty of people zipping around on 'motos' (scooters) like psychos, weaving in and out of the tourists. Bought some gelati from a man who spoke no English - Ananas (pineapple) and Limoni (lemon) - both very nice and true to their flavour! We did a little shopping then headed back to the ship.
Main sitting at dinner - probably didn't enjoy the food as much as lunch but the company was better - a 27/28 year old couple from Belgium, also on their honeymoon! At dessert time we were brought a 'Happy Honeymoon' cake and serenaded by the waitstaff with singing and a guitar and bazooki! You could tell everyone else was thinking "why do they get sung to?!" and jealous, but they still gave a round of applause at the end!
Entertainment tonight was Greek night, staff & crew doing traditional greek dances ending with Zorba's dance. Everyone cleared out straight away so we checked out the rest of the nightlife. Got roped in to singing a song at Karaoke (Piano Man by Billy Joel) then went to check out the nightclub. With 10 people (5 of these were waitresses!) it wasn't very happening! One quick dance but the DJ changed the song halfway through. Not much nightlife on this ship - ~98% of the population is OLD!!!!