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Beautiful island with an explosive history
... to the sea in two places, in the northwest and southwest. The caldera being 400m deep makes it possible for all but the largest ships to anchor anywhere in the protected bay; there is also a newly built marina in Vlychada on the southwestern coast. The principal port is called Athinias. The capital, Fira, clings to the top of the cliff looking down on the lagoon.
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Milkshake > Coffee
... and check out the beach that was just below our accommodation. When I say just below, I mean a 15 minute walk down a zigzagged path that looks like it is about to crumble away any second. I was very cautious walking down but once we hit the bottom it was fine. The beach was not your classic Australian beach, it was made up of black and red pebbles of various sizes and they were super hot to touch.
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Ancient caldera
... our curiosity about the sunset because heavy cloud cover meant that there wasn't one. We wonder how often that happens.
In Italy the buildings are painted very cheerfully, so I am interested in why the buildings are uniformly white on Greek islands. I suppose it is cheap and cool, but perhaps there are other reasons too. It creates a distinctive look though, and the blue domes of the very numerous little churches stand ...
Santorini Day 2
... what they are called, but I’ve had these custard things a lot in Greece. It’s custard between two bits of pastry, with a sort of cinnamon or something flavour as well. Really good!
Twenty minutes later we arrived at Akrotiri, parked the smart car (pretty easily!) and walked half way around a cliff to the red beach. The red beach is like the black beach, lots of tiny red ...
Tis Said !!
... 8220;Picture Post Card’ in appearance I was not sure that any photograph I took would do justice to the moment !
Lining up for the ferry there were hundreds of people waiting and hundreds coming off the boat with their luggage so a wait of 30 minutes followed. By the time we were all ‘herded’ onto the ferry and seated it departed and so began my first ‘island hopping’ experience on one of the catamarans or ‘fast ferries’. ...
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