Nikos Villas Oia

... for me.

Ancient Thira is well worth a visit. Perched impossibly on top of a mountain of pure rock it looks out to a view to forever. It’s not hard to imagine the reasoning behind setting a city up this high, even though it must have made life very challenging for the inhabitants. Wandering around the ancient laneways poking in and out of the ruins of houses thousands of years old made me wonder what life must have been life for the original inhabitants ...

There are simple ways of getting to Oia (or Ia as it is also know and how you pronounce it), such as bus, taxi or hire car. But who needs simple? I had read as part of my research about the wonderful walk between Fira and Oia and I thought we'd give it a try. Loading up the backpack with some supplies (but forgetting water of all things) we set off through the town of Fira which seamlessly turns into Firostafani. Along the way there are so many photo opportunities to get pretty pictures of ...

... her arm and slapped him right across the face while yelling obscentites and describing Brittany's wound.

At the medical tent, the medic seemed unfazed, and continued to remove splinters from a young man's foot. He then looked at the wound, and decided he was incapable of treating it. He got the guys at reception to drive her to the hospital. They would only allow Lindsey Kelly and Micheal to accompany her to the hospital. The medic also demanded that Kelly put on ...

... Saturday we had breakfast in the morning, went to the beach for an hour or two, and then drove around the island, exploring. We started our tour stopping in a small town - Ano Mera. Then when I took a wrong turn we ended up in Fokos, but it was perfect because it was a gorgeous, small, secluded beach. There was a cove and I even ended up swimming so I could explore it. Then we continued on to two more beach towns - Kalafati and Kalo Livadi, where we had lunch. After lunch, we ...

... there is no escalator to go up again!









This is our simple breakfast for the day. Ice cream in Waffle and coffee. We prefer McDonald's coffee... hehehe.












After breakfast, we went for the mule ride. Mule is actually a cross between donkey and a horse, and it is unlikely that ...

... performing restoration, or excavation. Okkkaaay.... not something that we would classify as interesting. And then Ai Ling asked the lady, "More rocks?" The Lady immediately nod her and in agreement, and we all laugh... hahaha...









It was actually quite windy up there. Even the tree bow down to the wind.






Oia, Cyclades, Greece songwillie

... was not bad, but I think the ones we had in Spain were nicer.







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After that we just drive around the island! Stop by around when we see any nice view for a quick pose.
We also stopped by the red sand beach. Nothing special except the red sand...












On our way, we saw a herd of ...

... keep getting off and walking! Kris was dropping me off and going back to pick her us on the bigger hills. But we were all laughing as we would come around a corner to find mum and dad rocking back and forth to try and get the piece of **** up the hill, or mum walking again! We went up to Oia (pronounced eea) at the northern tip of the main island, where all of the postcard views are, and wow it is just that, white churches with blue dones and ...

... into separate islands and it is pretty spiffy. but i won't lie - it was hard work... i think that will count as my exercise for the next 2 weeks. after the volcano we boated over to hot springs... but jessica, paloma and i chickened out and didn't go in because there was a ginormous school of jellyfish in the water that you had to swim through in order to get to the hot springs. i was mad at myself for not going, but when everyone got ...

... 8 apartments with balcony, kitchen, bath, and living room. The building is set into the cliff. Between the living room and kitchen was an arched wall. (See hotel section for photos of this and the other hotels). On our balcony, we had a small table, 2 chairs and an umbrella to use. To actually sit out and view the other buildings, we had to move our chairs up towards the front as there were was a privacy wall between the apartments ...