Antinea Kamari

... time to chat with the locals they told us how lucky we were to be visiting at this time of the year, how much nicer it is when it is quiet. As one shopkeeper told us 'Now you can see the real Santorini’

We had one last stroll around the laneways overlooking the caldera, one last meal at the excellent Pelican cafe and one last ice cream from our favourite sweet shop and one last soak in the Jacuzzi.

Ah Santorini, thank you for sharing your beauty with us.

... boat and dried themselves off and told us about the ‘lukewarm springs’ that included a lot of dubious sludge and more floating rubbish at the shoreline than you could imagine. By this time I was really regretting my decision not to go – it all sounded so much fun! I was so grateful to Heath for being my in loco parentis.

We headed back to Santorini and after docking went to see about the cable car. A sign on the ticket office window told us ...

... interesting to note that after the rain that had fallen in the past couple of days there was a huge amount of rock and volcanic sand strewn across the roads.

As sunset approached we found ourselves back at Oia. The rain and clouds put paid to any ideas of a magnificent sunset, but we saw the bay of Ammoudiou and Jess had a close encounter with a donkey. We decided to keep the car for another day.

A power cut in the morning meant we hurried out the door. Our ...

... buildings with stunning caldera backdrops that you will need another memory card. It took us almost an hour to reach the village of Imerovigli, another town perched impossibly on the top of the cliffs. Although there was nothing open in this town except the supermarket, this allowed us to get the water we needed (but not the coffee stop we craved...)

We were told that the walk to Oia is two hours, but the literature (once we read it) said 3 hours. We took more than four ...

... descent and I waited until after the ride to let him know that they are pretty dangerous-I remember people being killed within the past few years when the cars fell. And at this very moment we are sailing away from Santorini toward Istanbul. I am sad to see Santorini go, but I can hope to return someday. Besides, Istanbul is very exciting! Hope that all is well-WE MISS THE PUPPIES! And the rest of you too :) Ciao!

... return some ipod speakers we brought for 4 euro that not surprisingly didnt work very well. We could only get store credit so we ended up buying ..... a cooking pot. I know we have officially left the backpacking culture. Its a small light one though and it means that now we can stop worrying about whether a place has a kitchen as coupled with a small gas cooker we now can cook one pot meals. (We have come up with hot dogs, nachos and pasta but if anyone has any better ideas then ...

... well make use of the time to see if I can find any precious stones to bring back... hehehe...









Weee........ the first sign of the egg yolk! And here we are, two sleepy face with the sunrise.










Since we are up, we might as well get our day started earlier.
We moved our stuff ...