Blogs from Santorini, South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 10

For more of my photos, or to buy my book, please visit www.nickkembel.com Which words do I use to summarize one of the most beautiful places I have ever been? I have wanted to go to Greece for as long as I can remember, and Santorini was always the part I wanted to visit the most. The tiny C shaped island is composed of the remains of an enormous volcanic eruption some 3600 years ago that is thought to have contributed to the downfall of the ancient Minoan civilization by sending an enormous tsunami to neighboring Crete. In the center of the C sits a small black island which is actually the volcano's caldera, and to this day it is still active and produces warm water springs which spill into the ocean and tourists pile ... read more

Our decision to visit Santorini was initiated as follows. Jonathan: "Where should we go after Mykonos?" Zara: "I don't know. What's another really Greek island? How about Santorini? I've heard of that one." Jonathan: "Too far. What about Naxos? Hang on, I have to check my e-mail." Naxos was described in our guidebook as a beautiful island with magnificent beaches. Santorini a magnificent island with beautiful beaches. No help from Lonely Planet. But Jonathan found the answer in his inbox. Stan and Amanda, two Aussies we met in Italy and traveled through France with, were traveling to Santorini and wondered where we might be. So we followed the winds of fate to join them. The caldera view that greeted us was one of a kind. The island is shaped like an engagement ring, with a ... read more

ARGHHHH so i just wrote of my past weekk and the stupid connection dropped and i lost it. so you only get an overviewnow! sorry. Okay so Mykanos we were going to go out to delos , an island of ancient ruins but they werent running boats that day so we spent antoher day on the beach. anyway ferried it over to PAros. Stayed quite a bit out of town but on the beach in little kennel looking things with lockable doors and beds with linen and pillows provided. Next day we cruised on around paros and anti paros. our first stop was a 10m ocean cliff jump but i chickened out!! jess and jessie were the first girls to do it second stop was a secluded beach where we ate souvlaki tzatziki andbread. yum yum. ... read more

Location: Santorini Weather: Sunny, 30°C At Santorini we arrived in the new port by tender boats, the journey in the caldera was quite rough as the wind had picked up again. The road up the side of the caldera in the bus was quite scary as you were often perched at the edge of the cliff. I visited a winery while on Santorini, the grape vines are grown on the ground in a basket shape in order to protect the grapes from the hot dry wind. The wine was very nice but 10am was a little early to be having a drink. The tour visited a great museum in Santorini that housed artefacts collected from Akrotiri. Akrotiri was covered in ash during the last massive volcanic eruption on the island. The eruption caused the island to ... read more

10:33 Our first stop on the greek side of things was Athens. We flew in from Denmark and right at the airport found a very greasy cab driver who had jumped the que to take us. We gave him our bags and realized as we were rushed and crammed into the cab that the bags were hanging out of the cab! the cab driver reassured that he would tye them down, after about 10 minutes of driving he pulls over on the narrow hiway and secures our luggage. Our cab driver was a man of many talents he not only drove a cab but he was also a indy car driver and a tour guide, which when we finally got to our stop he of course wanted to be paid for. we droped of our luggage ... read more

Day 490 (14/8/09) Early start as we packed up our tent and our gear which we had managed to spread throughout the car and made our way to the Heraklion Port. We arrived early to collect our tickets, yet we had no idea just how hard that would be. We dropped the car off, and headed to the ticket office, (unbeknown at the time with the wrong reference number) who directed us to another ticket booth who directed us to the main ticket office at the Old port, 20 minutes later we arrived at the Old port to be told the tickets weren't there they were where we had just came from, back to the original ticket office who redirected us to temporary office near the boat, we arrived there just as the ticket officer was ... read more

1. You can wear Royal Caribbean keychains as earrings for that time when you want a big white and blue plastic accessory to compliment your outfit. 2. You can wear a string bikini when you’re in your 80s. You won’t look good but you can wear it. 3. Don’t ever tell people you wish your wife of 4 days had less attitude in front of a theatre full of people. The rest of us will laugh and laugh and laugh. 4. Re: getting burnt. Response we heard someone say to a friend warning her that she’s burnt: “I don’t burn because I’m showering a lot”. 5. Ignorance is bliss. Case in point: “People in Croatia should just learn English to make it easier for us to shop”. 6. It’s ok for young girls to wear stilettos. ... read more