So it is awesome that I have a job that allows me to enjoy almost all of the ports we are visiting. However, it is a little less awesome that I am friends with the entire gift shop staff who are always free for every port (the onboard gift shops are not allowed to be open when we are at port, so thus they are never working). Since none of us like to wake up early, we never manage to leave the ship before 11:30am. They usually don't have to be back until 5:30, but I usually have to be back by 3:30 - 2 hours makes a big difference when your day is only 4 hours long. So I always end up either rushing everyone back to the ship, convincing them they are in desperate need of a nap before their 6pm shift, or stuck walking back to the ship by myself and loosing a good time.
More often than not, as soon as we get off of the ship - a source of infinite free food - we get immediately hungry and focus on finding a cafe or outdoor patio-style restaurant to spend far too much money on beer and (lately) shish kebabs.
By the time a group of 8 people agree on a restaurant, find a place to sit, debate beer or no beer, soda or cappuccino, etc. etc. etc., order drinks, order food, get food, eat food, pay for food (this usually takes about 30 minutes to figure out since we all sort of pay separately and in a total of 3 different currencies - turkish lira, euro, and dollars) - that my entire 4 hours has come and gone and I have to return to the ship. They - on the other hand - then get 2 hours of post meal beach time - of which I am endlessly envious.
Bodrum was nice. The lunch was delicious. The water is so blue :)
Have you seen any of the small sailing ships called (I think) gullets? Roger and I always wanted to charter one of the along with a chef....
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