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The cruise: an epic saga PART 2
The next day we arrived on the island of Santorini. Since
Santorini has no large port we had to anchor out in a bay and disembark via
tenderboats. (small boats that hold about 50 people) It was quite an operation,
getting 3800 people off a boat and onto an island. We could see the capital
city (but more like village) of Fira at the top of the steep mountain perched
on the edge of the cliffs. The only ways up were a cable car and a small switch-back-y
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Beautiful island with an explosive history
... island, and created the current geological caldera. A giant central, rectangular lagoon, which measures about 12 by 7 km (7.5 by 4.3 mi), is surrounded by 300 m (980 ft) high, steep cliffs on three sides. The main island slopes downward to the Aegean Sea. On the fourth side, the lagoon is separated from the sea by another much smaller island called Therasia; the lagoon ...
Paradise
... in Santorini as it would be impossible to describe. I'll just post lost of pictures. Eden had an interesting encounter with a donkey. Eden Jake and I decided to take a donkey ride from the Old Port up to the main part of town. Eden freaked out and jumped off, I followed and Jake had to join us otherwise he would have ended up on his own. We were surrounded by about 20 confused donkeys on a tiny path (I kid you not) and six mad (as cut ...
Day 3 Santorini
... produces the red sand/pebbles. It was very small and very crowded, and we couldn't figure out why. The beach was littered with lumps of red rock fallen from the cliff face and rubbish, there was this weird white ashy/leafy stuff on the upper part of the beach, and the water was quite dirty (and very turbid near the shore). We went for a bit of a snorkel, but there wasn’t much too see. ...
Rough seas, wind, white, and blue all in one day!
... usually in August, the farmers and workers stayed right at the farms for the two or three week season. The museum showed how the grape presses went from feet to modern day presses and pointed out Santorini has only had electricity since 1967, not all that long ago, really. Another thing I learned was during no part of the wine making process should the grapes or the juice touch anything metal because if they do it reduces the quality of wine and ...