June 27, 2026
We had a half-day in Ephesus, but Bob was going birding and I was not feeling well, so I skipped that day and took a very long nap. We had visited the ruins and Ephesus before, and while I was really looking forward to going back, I just needed some sleep.
The next day I was much better and ready for our adventure in Rhodes.
Rhodes is the largest of a group of Greek islands in the Southeastern Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Seas known as the Dodecanese islands. See it highlighted in red in the map below. You would thank that because of its proximity to Turkey, it would belong to Turkey rather than Greece. Because of its key location at the entrance to the Aegean Sea, it has changed hands fairly often, belonging to the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and Ottomans, among others. The Ottomans possessed the island from 1522-1912, at which pointed Italy seized the island during a war with Turkey. Germany occupied the island during World War II, and after the war Rhodes was eventually united with Greece in 1947.
Rhodes comprises 540 square miles and has a population of about 128,000. The largest city, Rhodes City, has a population of over 50,000, but we started our Rush Through Rhodes by traveling to the city of Lindos, population approximately 3,000 and known for having the most visited the archaeological site on the island, the Acropolis. A bus took us from the port in Rhodes City 25 miles south to Lindos and the base of the Acropolis. Like all good tourist sites, we had to walk through a market to get to our destination, and guess who I saw there?
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