Santorini Sailing

We woke to the sound of anchors lowering in Santorini. Kyle grabbed breakfast while Hannah grabbed a few more minutes in bed and Kyle brought some back for her. It was hard boiled eggs, bacon and hash browns.

We met the group in the Can Can Lounge for our excursion. We met the young Canadian, Adam, who joined us on this tour. Our tender …

... vacation! I had to endure a broken down plane in New York and missed connections in both London and Athens, but I made it to Santorini Island something like 28 hours later.  I can also add "slept in Athens airport" to my travel resume.   ...

... at the water until it is indistinguishable from the sky. 9. Board the bus and look out the window at the vineyards, at distant Santorini and Ia which look like a splatter of white bird droppings on the crest of the caldera. 10. Walk back through the ...

... trees on the other side of the world.  It also buried several Bronze Age, likely Minoan, settlements on Santorini and likely created tsunamis that flattened settlements in Crete. For a thousand years or so afterwards, no trace of the ...

We departed Athens at a leisurely hour on Sunday morning heading to Santorini to begin our weeklong sailing trip.  We spent most of the day in Santorini trying to take care of logistics for some other parts of our trip, etc...Today in the downtown ...

... of really hurt and I couldn't believe the smile she kept on her face. She kept saying "well. at least I fell down in Santorini. On a volcano. I have a story to tell." We met an interesting pair from America; a father and daughter (Sergio and Ana) and we ...

... leave to our next island. So there goes another day of sailing! It had to be repaired and replaced. In total we missed 3 days of sailing from the pre-established itinerary. Needless to say he didn't get a tip at the end. But the Minxy Michelle (MM), the ...

... finished an eight-day sailing trip around the Greek Islands with 13 friends and was spending a few days on Santorini to recuperate before flying home. We immediately starting chatting about our holidays so far and life in ...

Santorini is the home group of islands for many of the Greek families that migrated to Australia after WWII, which in Greec was followed by a civil war and a military dictatorship. If that wasn't enough, half the people were made homeless after a ...

Tendering, tendering, back to the volcanic lands...(sung to the tune of Sailing, sailing).  On this itinerary we arrived in Santorini, Greece - the white city on top of the mountains of lava ash - in the early morning and left in the early ...

... 2,000 Greek Islands. So we basically run down two floor to the exit, have some woman yelling at us 'go go go the ship is sailing!!' And we made it off really seconds before the ship pulled away from the port. Paros was kind of creepy at night - it was ...