Star Legend: Days 5 and 6

 Day 5: Aboard ship all day, no excursions

Weather: Perfect

Activities: None

Department of Glances: A brief observation is that the Star Legend is a big improvement over the WindSurf, with one exception: the food was better on  the Surf. 

Department of Streaks: The photos, few as they are, do not load perfectly; they do load though, and here they are

sunset

THB and DB receive Corinth Canal pins (or are they cufflinks?)

 Day 6: Santorini

Blue Alert: this is when DB put down a deposit for 2 on a 2026 WindStar cruise through the Panama Canal. THB is hoping for another pin. 

Weather: Breezy and clear, as the wind picked up in afternoon it got very cold in the shade 

Activities: Tender from ship to shore, shuttle to downtown Fira, return is same in reverse. No gondola, shut down while safety of system is verified after very large number of recent small earthquakes. Back aboard, BBQ dinner outside ... brrrrrrr!

Santorini

Black Flag = Ship at Anchor

Greek tenders handle moving cruisers ashore (labor union rules)

Star Legend at anchor

Door to nowhere

another door to nowhere

aaaah, the doors open to stairs that drop off the cliff

Fira

another town (looking like snow) on the ridge further along the main/only highway

Red Alert: this is where the inside of THB's right knee started to throb with a dull pain. 

at the top of ridge we have lunch (THB did  not take pic of restaurant) and had number of new (to THB) dishes

watermelon, feta, lettuce salad (not new)

Democrats have been reduced to ferrying and hauling laundry up and down the steep slopes of Santorini

Unintelligible ... Doge rules for laying off employees? 

DA navigates us back to town, this is part of the route (true!)

local signage

phew: we skip this shortcut

THB and LB posed for this work of art

Closed due to fear of more earthquakes 

the road to peace? Actually the name of aa great Tom Waits song

aquafarming?

two ferries pull in and out  of the port, delays the tenders sent to take large group of cruisers to Star Legend

one woman  on THB's tender used her plastic bag as a barf container, sorry, no pic

Santorini at night

Book Review: To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (read by Gabrielle de Cuir, pub'd in 1927, recorded 2023): THB had to start over 3 times to try and keep the characters straight (the main group was a family of  10 plus assorted house  guests) and  glad he was as the book is an excellent exploration of the inner dialogue we all have coursing through our heads as life moves on. Highly Recommended