Petros Villas Santorini
Thira Santorini, Cyclades, 84700, Greece
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Kerkyra, Greece to Santorini, Greece, finally
... worse than my low expectations. It really is tourist-trashed out, with car rentals, scooter rentals and every imaginable shop and walk-in restaurant that caters to tourists lining the streets. The narrow streets are jammed with people off several large cruise ships anchored in the old port inside the caldera (6 ships when I flew in). When I was here 35 years ago (in the off season) the place was almost quaint with no cruise ship stopping. Arriving ...
Hey! Move Your Ass.... Ya Donkey!
... off…. Ok?? HOW HOW DO I GET OFF THIS THING! There is no pretty way of doing it and basically I slipped one leg off them was flopped over the back of the donkey kicking my legs around laughing so hard because I was stuck! When Jana and I got off we just held each other scream laughing hysterically!
So after that excitement we were EXHAUSTED and burnt! Seriously WHY didn’t I bring a t-shirt with me! We walked around but everything was ...
Grand sunsets
In my room I repacked my suitcase completely as
I knew that I would not have much time tonight and bags had to be
outside the rooms at midnight. Once my bag was packed I got ready for
santorini and then went up to the top deck and took pictures of the
approach to the island. I stayed up on the top deck until the call
for the excursions to the island was made. I then went to the palace
theatre and meet up with the group. From here we went to the tender
area ...
Day 31
... did. It was pretty scary at first, and even scarier when we fell off and semi crashed :( We were turning on an inclined hill too slow and the bike just dropped and I got a little scraped up. That was a minor downer but I eventually got over it, bad news is that the right handle break broke off so we'll see what the damage will be when we return it $$$. We drove after to the beach and tried the snorkel gear we bought, terrible! Water leaked into the goggles but I can ...
Volcanic venture
... We set out around 11am and headed out to the centre of the volcanic crater to where a small island is located, the "active" centre made up of nothing much more than volcanic material - lava rocks etc. It was quite a walk in the midday heat to the top, probably only about 250 meters in elevation from sea level, but it was up a stony gravel path and all we had was thongs to walk in (not the bikini kind - I left that one behind this morning). The 360 ...



