Trying to catch up after a few days on a ship with no WiFi. Ack!
We boarded the ship in Kusadasi, Turkey. Our first destination was the Isle of Patmos.
Port in Kusadasi
Our room on the ship was a bit nicer than the accommodations Paul had -- and we weren't shipwrecked either.
Isle of Patmos
The Romans used Patmos as a location for a prison due to the rocky, barren landscape. John arrived there as a prisoner when he was in his 80's. (He returned to Ephesus after serving an 18 month sentence and lived there until he died at age 104.)
View of the Port at Patmos from a hill.
Squid anyone?
Monastery of St. John
Entrance to monastery
View of the harbor from inside the monastery
Bells on top of the monastery
This guy kept stepping in front of every picture I tried to take. Duuuude.... Exasperating! hahahaha
Working windmills that date back many years.
Outside the monastery
We then visited a cave where it is claimed that John received the revelation that became the book of Revelation in the Bible. It is only a possible location - made so by its logical location. Although it is quite possibly not the actual place John received the vision, it still gave us an idea of what it may have been like. Unfortunately, the cave was so small that the pictures didn't turn out well enough to see anything but a dark wall of rock.
We then returned to the ship by small boat and continued on to Crete.
