Aressana Fira

... greek buildings forming a fantasic backdrop! Oh and Noma loved it even more cause she got to pull out her best impressions of cats cause there were plenty of them on the Island!! Lots of baby kitties!<br><br>Santorini has very famous sunsets so the last stop of the day was in a little village / town called Oia. What was little strange was the fact that the boat dropped us off at the base of some cliffs and said "Yep everyone it's up there!" They must have been about 200m high ...

Well, a very enjoyable last night in Santorini. had dinner at a lovely restaurant overlooking the sunset strip. Pity it wasn't the clearest of nights but still spectacular.<br>Dinner consisted of grilled pork with pureed red pepper and potatoes with cheese and Souvlaki Lamb with baked potato.<br>A 5.00 am start got us on to the flight to Athens then Rome.

After a sleep in we wandered into town to choose a suitable location for our anniversary dinner tonight (21 years!).<br>As usual we just had to take more photos ~ don't worry, after a few more tonight this will be all of Santorini.<br>Next, Italy where the forecast is 0 to 14 degrees. BRR BRR

... island is so beautiful and looks like it is covered with snow but it is actually the white houses- all of the towns are located up high on the mountain rather than down at sea level. The donkey ride up was hilarious! Women were screaming and the greek men were trying to make them understand that they were scaring the donkeys and needed to shut up. It was a little bit scary because the donkeys got really close to the edge of the pathway and they didn't care if ...

... baths, ancient iron utensils, knives, fish hooks, wall paintings, etc discovered at the dig site of Akrotiri on the island....Akrotiri is a town similar to Pompeii, in that it was covered in thick ash from an enormous volcanic eruption around 1500 BC, when the island was reshaped to be as we see it today.....half the original island blew up &amp; then subsided into the sea, creating the rim of the caldera that now exists...it is ...

... up because the rocks. Several time I lost my footing and slipped, once scraping my arm pretty badly. But I finally got down, and waited with the rest of the group for the boat and listening to several English speaking tourists talk about their adventures. When the time for the boat to depart came, it hadn&#8217;t even arrived, which made me nervous. I was supposed to fly to Athens that night, and I wanted to make sure I had enough time to get back to Oia, grab my bags ...

... but it was still all I could handle for about 4 minutes. After that I wandered into the center of Fira and just went through all the shops. When I say it is totally a beach holiday type place, I mean that when you're here, there is nothing that needs to be done. You can wander, tan, and shop all day and not feel guilty or feel like you are missing something important or wasting your time. Yesterday I did the same. Walked into Fira, and ...

... along a dusty and rocky path. Ia was filled with day-trippers when we arrived (there is a tour bus parking lot and it was full of parked buses) which actually made it a little tough to navigate the narrow lanes of the pedestrian-ized village. But the vast number of visitors wasn't enough to diminish our experience there. It is beautiful; stunning. There is no shortage of subjects to picture (and we have the hundreds of shots to prove it!). Although we didn't know it before, THIS ...

... try to get some sleep anyway..and deal with getting to Santorini in the morning. At least I knew there were daily ferries to Santorini, so long as I could get on one. I even contemplated not going anymore and getting to Munich earlier, stuff the stupid greek islands....but no, it was ok, just a minor delay. The thing that anoyed me most was having to pay extra money, I didnt mind the traveling part, it was more the money I'd wasted on extra ferry rides. May as well have ...

... outs. We took them back to our hotel and enjoyed them on our balcony. Nickola's Phone: 0286-24550 This place has no menu, but a blackboard of the days specials. We enjoyed taramasolata as an appetizer, then stuff squid with rice and potatoes; Tony had moussaka again! Wine and beer. $17. Very good meal and inexpensive! The place was packed with locals and tourists. Zafora Phone: 0286-23203 Credit cards accepted On the caldera rim ...