Meltemi Hotel

... later told me I had about 10mm to spare on the passenger side. At this point I said enough, stopped t a carpark near our hotel, bought some yummy Greek sweets to treat myself and retired for the evening, feeling rattled but successful all at the same ...

... sunny when we arrived, but not quite as hot as it had been the last week in Santorini. However, after our first afternoon the Meltemi Wind arrived and cooled the temps down quite a bit. The Meltemi Wind is a very strong wind that blows from the north of ...

... the ferry and set off to find ourselves some accommodation. We found a hotel that Michael had stayed at before called the Hotel Meltemi (the trade winds). The owner of the hotel thought she recognized Michael and almost bent over backward to give us her ...

... back to the hotel. The a/c at our hotel worked great and we were very happy about that! The next morning, however, the Meltemi Wind arrived and lowered the temperatures and cleared out the humidity. For the first day the wind was a welcome change but ...

... be any cars. Thirty looooong minutes later I manage to flag one down and hitched a ride back to town. My encounter with Meltemi aside, I thoroughly enjoyed Amorgos. Since there weren't any other tourists I was able to soak up local island culture. Over ...

... down to the harbor area to look for a restaurant, and eventually found a bunch of our group at a sidewalk restaurant called Meltemi (the name is correct if I translated the Greek letters correctly).  I ordered the Chicken Souvlaki and some ...

... kayaks, snorkels, flippers and beer! We ended up staying at this amazing island for 4 nights as we had the best spot and the Meltemi winds were playing havoc with the rest of the islands. So over the days we ate like Kings with either lunch or dinner in ...

... in the restaurant! We asked the owner of the restaurant about the strong winds and she said they are called the meltemi, a cooling strong wind, blows, sometimes strongly enough to create rough water, which occur mostly in July and August in Santorini. ...

... system is efficient and the boats are fast, with plenty of services - coffees, pastries, beer, meals, confectionaries and gifts. The meltemi (north wind in summer) was blowing hard, 40-50 knots I guessed and the large ship cut through the swells with an ...

... . OK, never mind my rant: at Homer’s tomb look north over the blue sea, choppy with white caps stirred up by the meltemi, and you will see the larger island and mountains of Naxos, and Paros, and to the east, Amorgos. These brown mountains - rising ...

... east to Naossa, a beach town with many cafes on the water. After going for a short swim we enjoyed a great lunch at Restaurant Meltemi. Danielle once again had the best Greek salad she’s ever had (she’s had one every day) and Greg had some ...

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