Panorama Hotel Parikia

... are still many columns as well as some interesting mosaics. Even with what remains, there is enough to get a good idea of what the island would have been like in its heyday. The best know sculptures on the island are a row of lions.

We anchored within the Bay of Delos and returned in the afternoon for lunch aboard. After we finished exploring the island, we boarded the yacht and returned to Mykonos for the evening. We went to shore and found a ...

... beautiful place with the village full of white-washed buildings scattered around a maze of little streets and alley ways. Just at it seemed that Santorini was made for couples, Mykonos was make for singles and the party life. This is one place that I want to return to again.

I love the fact that I'm sick. Not in an, "Oh, what fun to be sick!" way, but in an, "Expectations will get you every time!" way. I am still really, really enjoying the cruise. But I think the theme of the trip is undoubtedly learning to embrace whatever comes your way even when it's not exactly what you thought it was going to be. I assumed I would be spending the entire cruise sunbathing, getting a deep, dark, golden tan and boozing like a sailor. Instead I've been ...

... meter's weren't running by the minute.

As is custom for us, we found a local bottleshop and purchased a local bottle of wine, with grapes grown in Greece.

We returned to the marina area and then made our way to the area of the island called "Little Venice". Here the most western part of the town meets the sea. Buildings are constructed right at the sea's edge with their balconies overhanging the ...

... Adams during an unbelievably good acoustic set at Harmony (Smitty immejately crushing his dreams: "I wanna hear some Bolton")
-completely misinterpreting the vibe during bungalow sip o' dt and requesting "Rise Up" and all Ibiza '07 techno while DJ Smead was pumping out savage tunes
-announcing that the peak in Montenegro was higher while all hands were celebrating booze cruise cliffjump

How MacGyver did Ios
-said to a girl who had a ...

... but not nearly as much as it was in early August. From what the locals say this is the perfect time to be here....weather and crowds are goods. Troy is leaning over my should sipping on ouzo and trying to read a greek magazine. This has been the best vacation I think we have ever taken...I just wish we had more days to explore each island. We never want to leave it seems. Tomorrow we get up bright and early to leave for Mykonos. From what I hear ...

... to another....ahhh...to be able to speak just ONE more language other than English!! Santorini is also famous for it's wines and due to the rich fertile soil...it makes a perfect location for them. They grow the vines in rows of low lying bushes and wind the vine around the roots to protect them from the wind... My tour boat landed at the base of the cliff leading up to Oia - famous for it's sunsets. The only problem was lugging my increasingly heavy ...

... and still couldn't find my way back if I tried. I'm drinking a frappe. I've discovered that it's impossible to order 'coffee'. Espresso, yes. Cappuccino, yes. But not coffee. I've also discovered that every place in the entirety of Greece seems to serve 'frappe'. It's cold coffee, but frothed up and delicious. Not like the over sweet frozen coffee drinks we can find so easily at home. Not that I need to be drinking an icy drink. It's cold! In the evenings while I was in Oia I ...

... day we caught a bus to the other side of the island, to a little fishing village called Nassoua. This is a very pretty fishing village. We wandered around the Marina. I love all the fishing boats bobbing in the harbour and the cobbled streets. I love wandering around and watching the fisherman bash the freshly caught squid on the rocks to kill it (and tenderise it?) before laying it out in ...

How on Earth did I get to be so lucky?

My family and I went on a cruise of the Greek Islands. We ate a lot, got sea sick once, soaked up the sun, and absorbed the classically beautiful white and blue colours on the islands. There weren't very much ship activities that my sister and I were interested in but Allyson and I did win a bingo game! Mykonos was by far our favorite island because of its beauty.