Veggera Perissa

... from Oz and bump into a TV personality from home! His wife was a lovely lady and she didn't seem bothered at all that they'd been stranded in the middle of the Greek isle! Noma recognised Rex straight away from his voice. Very distinctive.<br><br>Anyway, back to the day trip!<br><br>The boat arrived and a group of about 40 people jumped on and headed off to the first stop at the volcanic island. What I didn't realise was that it's actually still active! It was quite a trek up ...

Well, a very enjoyable last night in Santorini. had dinner at a lovely restaurant overlooking the sunset strip. Pity it wasn't the clearest of nights but still spectacular.<br>Dinner consisted of grilled pork with pureed red pepper and potatoes with cheese and Souvlaki Lamb with baked potato.<br>A 5.00 am start got us on to the flight to Athens then Rome.

After a sleep in we wandered into town to choose a suitable location for our anniversary dinner tonight (21 years!).<br>As usual we just had to take more photos ~ don't worry, after a few more tonight this will be all of Santorini.<br>Next, Italy where the forecast is 0 to 14 degrees. BRR BRR

The weather has improved remarkably, the wind dropping from the 40 knot+ from yesterday as we set off on the sailing vessel "Captain Yannis". We departed Amoudi Wharf and motored to Nea Kameni, the volcano island, where we saw the evidence of eruptions dating back to 1630 BC.<br>That first eruption was 70 times larger than Krakatoa in Indonesia and produced a tsunami 250m high!<br>The most recent eruption was in 1950 and even today we could see hot steam venting from the ...

... photographed of all the towns on Santorini. The typical white buildings and blue domes were in abundance with breathtaking views. <br>Corfu was our next and final port of call, and in contrast with the barren landscape of Santorini, we were met with a fairly lush and green island. We took the 'panoramic corfu' excursion and took a bus ride through the mountainous terrain covered mostly in olive groves.<br>(Whitney)<br><br>We had a fantastic day in Santorini ...

... we had bought a lovely ring the year before. After speaking with them about sizing options, it was decided we could have it adjusted back home cheaply, and without casuing any damage to the ring itself. <br><br>We then went thru the small but fascinating Santorini Museum, where entry just happened to be free for a few days! We were not allowed to pose in front of the exhibits but did take many non-flash photos of the various stoneware ...

... nearing danger of being smucked with melting icecream made our minds up that we would rather do any of the following than stay at his particular hotel: 1) Carve our eye out with a spoon. 2) Give an elephant a rectal exam. 3) Lick a cactus. 4) Pee on an electrical fence 5) Poop out hot ashes. I think you get the point. We eventually got away from the cramped crowd and were trying to gather our thoughts when we were ...

... were so small that neither of us could get through them, especially with our back packs but Ryan looked like a GIANT in comparison to how these people must have been built. We ventured into what appeared to be an old abandoned ruin and as we wandered through we found it to be a small housing community - you would never have guessed this by wandering through it! Ryan stopped to take a photo of a cool rusty old lock and Laurie heard this loud noise, turned around and ...

... Santorini. Definitely a case in point that you should do things when you can, because there may not be a next time. Fortunately the result was pretty spectacular indeed! There's still a lot to cover in the countryside so I'll continue with that in the next entry, but as the little orthodox chapels are the main image you take away from ...

... would have time to go out to the 2004 Olympic village site before we left, not to be though as the three hour bus ride to the port of Patra was to eat into most of our day. We managed to arrive early for our ferry to Bari, Italy so we stocked up on food for our journey. It was an overnight ferry after all. Checked in, settled in and no fighting over the seats, we slept soundly until the next moring where we arrived in the port city of Bari. The days have now officially blended into one.