Greek Trip 03/06/12: Venice > Amsterdam > KL > KCH

This is the final episode that concludes The Greek Trip 2012. For those who has been following all 36 posts at this blog on the Greek Trip, I would like to thank you so much for your time and patience, truly appreciate that. 

Well, as the title goes; Venice > Amsterdam > Kuala Lumpur > Kuching.

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Left: The little window at the cockpit

Greek Trip 02/06/12: Leaving Venice

So, our Greek Trip has officially came to an end, time time say goodbye to Venice and few other places of the Greece. Though it's the end, there's always some stories to tell through the journey home.

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An Italian Cappuccino at a cafe nearby 

Italian express pizza, quite nice

Venezia / Venice

Carrying two cameras at the same time might be troublesome, but it sure has its benefits. This post is the only one that I separated the photos instead of mixing them up, just to show a little more "intimate" side of capturing details. So please enjoy the views where we spent 3 hours plus in the heart of Venice.

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Venice, Italy

Well, I was feeling really grateful to be here, Venice, as it is one of my listed dream destinations. Even though we only have less than five hour to tour Venice, but I think it should be enough to fulfill my achievement. Just to let you know, this isn't the complete set of Venice, two more posts coming up soon. Please kindly stay tuned.

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Greek Trip 02/06/2012: Approaching Venice, Italy

Our final tour destination, the ever romantic Venice. We were able to wake up earlier to catch a final glimpse of the Venice waterfront from deck 12 of the cruise. Weather however was a little gloomy but I don't think it was a bad thing too, as we get to tour Venice in a more "emotional" way. The complete stories of Venice will be concluded in the next three upcoming posts.

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Greek Trip 01/06/12: Final Day At Sea, Norwegian Jade

Yep, the journey to Greece has almost come to an end, and we had our final day on board of Norwegian Jade cruise while heading back to Venice port. So here are the rest of the stories. It has been a great pleasure to spent our sweet days on this wonderful cruise.

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Greek Trip 31/05/12: Greek Lunch

Lunch hour at Katakolo Town, where me and Ester came across with this "homey" Greek Restaurant. Surprisingly there's only 3 person working under the roof, the owner as the chef, the owner's wife taking orders and serving food, alongside with another waitress. So we wait for quite a while for our food, but it was really worth it. Check out the rest of the photos.

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Katakolo Town, Olympia

Katakolo is a seaside town located in western Ilia in the municipality of Pyrgos. The town itself is relatively new judging by its new buildings built along the port where most of them are restaurants and goods shop, and locals basic income rely mostly on tourism. Nevertheless it was a cheerful town and the people are nice and friendly too.

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Coke to kill the thirst

Greek Trip 31/05/12: Olympia Archaeological Site

The site of Olympia, located in a valley of Peloponnesus. This is the birthplace of Olympic Games that is being held every four year since 776 B.C. Olympia became a centre for the worship of Zeus in the 10th century B.C., and it has one of the highest concentrations of masterpieces from the ancient Greek world. Whatever we see today are the remains of all the sports structures erected for the Olympic Games.

I know some might see only "rocks" and "stones" in this post but hey, we were at the birthplace of Olympic which were around centuries ago, so it wasn't that bad after all.

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Landed

Dining At Grand Pacific, Norwegian Jade

This was in the evening after we left Mykonos. Instead of having dinner at the usual buffet restaurant, we indulged ourselves at one of the themed restaurant in the cruise, Grand Pacific.

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It seems like a warm sunset, but it was actually very cold out there

Greek Trip 30/05/12: Mykonos Graphics

Mykonos is such a unique place, from its buildings down to little details like a door knob. It is a place that has its very own style that is very appealing to the eyes, mind and soul. As a photographer / graphic designer, I present you the graphics of Mykonos.

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All photographs © Demitri Boon He Yang. Please do not manipulate or misuse the pictures without permission of the copyright owner.

Madoupas Cafe-Restaurant, Mykonos

Mykonos is an expensive place, due to its tourist attractions. So when it comes to food and beverages, we were very careful not to spend on the overrated restaurants. After we surveyed a few, we finally decided to stop at this cafe called Madoupas Cafe-Restaurant which was located in the middle of Little Venice and not far from the port. The main reason we had our lunch here is because they displayed their menu with pricings out front, and the atmosphere of the cafe looks welcoming too. Here we had ourselves some Moussaka, pork steak and some brava coffee.

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Windmills Of Kato Mill, Mykonos

The 5 remaining windmills are the structures that defined Mykonos famous landmark. They just look perfectly great in a row of five be it during day time against the blue sky, or even more tremendous in the sunset. However we don't have the opportunity to stay up to dusk hour so here in this post I can only present you the windmills in daylight scenery.

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Actually there were six of them, the one on the far left is already damaged

Little Venice, Mykonos

It's called Venice with a "Little" in front, only at Mykonos. The waterfront is surrounded by whitish buildings that were built during the 16th and 17th century and constructed right on the sea"s edge with their balconies overhanging the water that defined the first impression of Mykonos.

We returned to Little Venice after we visited Ano Mera, where we have plenty of time before heading back to our cruise. Since we had few hours left, we make good use of the time to walk around Little Venice, shopped around for souvenirs, admiring the scenery at the Windmills of Mykonos, and had some great Greek food, which I shall post later on.

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Ano Mera, Mykonos

Ano Mera is a village that sits on the highest land at Mykonos Island. There is an oldest monastery that was built in year 1524 and reformed in 1767. The interior of the monastery is decorated with detail mural, carved wood and silverware. 

After the visit, we were treated with another luncheon of Greek food at a restaurant next door. 

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Kalafatis Beach Special: The Waiting Dog

Just when we were about to leave the beach, I saw a man dragging his canoe to the water while his dog was hopping around him with excitement. 

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The beginning

Kalafatis Beach, Mykonos

Kalafatis Beach is one of the earliest established beach at Mykonos, but it's more famous for its water sports. For tourists like us, we didn't get much to know the premise more, all we had was just about 30 minutes of sightseeing tour. Besides enjoying the scenery of the beach, we also took the chance to grab ourselves some Greek frappe and cappuccino from Thalassa Restaurant and sip them slowly under the hot sun.

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I assumed it's 12 Euro per "seat"...

Greek Trip 30/05/12: Mykonos

My first impressions on Mykonos was, the places seems a little "flat" if compared to Santorini, which were built along the cliff of the coastal area. Mykonos doesn't have much high ground though, and the first place that we arrived was Chora Port, and along Chora port there lies "Little Venice" where the buildings were stood less than 3 meter from the seaside.

This post is covering our destinations from Chora Port to Boni's Mill, and to Agios Ioannis.

The rest of the photo-stories shall be posted soon. Happy viewing!!!

Clockwise from top left: My breakfast, tendering process, the tendering boat navigator, Ester & Noelle

Greek Trip 29/05/12: An Unforgettable Evening At Santorini

夕阳无限好，只是近黄昏。That's a Chinese proverb saying that "a setting sun is utmost beautiful, unfortunately it does not last." That's how I felt when we about to leave the beautiful Santorini while enjoying the iconic sunset on our way to get our cable car.

Well, I'll leave the rest of the stories through my photos. Hopefully I can come back here to know you more, Santorini.

Mykonos will be posted after this, stay tuned. Happy viewing!!!

Popi with some "last words"

It was Angelos' birthday, what a coincidence

Popi doing some traffic work here

Santo Wines, Santorini

The clock was ticking towards evening time, and we had moved to another place called Santo Wines. There we had our Greek style dinner where they served authentic Greek Food. Guess what, it was our first encounter with Greek food. The verdict? Well, for the food that's served with meat, it tasted good. However the vegetable ones tasted quite weird, as mint was being added as one of the ingredients. Overall Greek food was okay for me.

There we also experienced ourselves with Greek dance performance, played along was the music, Zorba The Greek. After we finished our dinner, tasted some wine, bought some souvenirs, then we called it a day by heading back to Oia to get a cable car ride.

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