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The Volcano, the Donkeys and the Sunset
Saturday 10 Sept was epic! It was my full day island tour which commenced at 9.15am, again with a bus load of foreigners, I mean, people from all over the world. First the bus took us to the highest point on the island where the scenery was of course just spectacular. Next was a visit to a couple of churches at a Monastery and then down to the port …
Riding like the wind!
Today (sunday) was awesome!!! I had the best day. First of all, I have to include that the breakfast my hotel provides each morning is fantastic. It's brought over on a tray and there's a delicious ham & cheese toastie, more toast, a boiled egg, coffee or tea, juice, honey and jams, and a chunk of what I think is home made cake. so good. …
Beautiful island with an explosive history
Such a lovely place.
Background:
The island is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history: the Minoan eruption (sometimes called the Thera eruption), which occurred some 3600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization. The eruption left a large caldera surrounded by volcanic ash deposits hundreds of metres deep and ...
Greek Islands Part 2
Yesterday morning we still had the quads until lunch time today so we all went for a ride and found a quarry. The boys loved this as it was all gravel roads and they definetly did their fair share of donuts and skids. Rather than hiring the quads for the rest of the day like the others we decided we had done enough riding over the last few days and we wanted to get some sun and relax before leaving the Greek Islands and heading ...
Pool time
... shopping completed (speaking of which, Kylie, I got you and Ra those greek eye thingys to hang in the car and ward off bad luck)
Lay around the pool
We are amazing because we managed to do all that AND go for more drinks and nibblies at the Lava Lounge bar that we found on our first night here, and have a slumming it dinner at a roadside diner place. I'm sure we did other things too, I just ...