Mike, the owner of Ios Resort was waiting at the port to pick us up and gave us a quick tour of the main strip before taking us to the hotel. It's 2.5km from the port to the town and then 2.5km from the town to the beach, all on the same road. The hotel itself was only a 5 minute walk from town which is another one of those Greek island towns that sits on the side of a steep hill. Once you get into the right part of town it is all bar and clubs, all of which are [View Full Entry]

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Aneliess and Amy’s 2 week vacation through Italy and Greece. First stop was Pisa where, after we took a taxi ride that cost way too much, we were eaten by bugs and saw all the sites in about an hour. We saw the oldest botanical gardens in Europe (not the biggest or most beautiful) and drank cappuccino for 1euro. Next was a stop on the 4th of July in Firenze or Florence, Italy. Our tour guide didn’t show up, but we managed to find our way around the town without him. Big churches, old bridges, good food in cute plazas and [View Full Entry]

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After 8 hours of boating torture we finally arrived at Santorini more then happy to be getting back to dry land. A short cab ride and we were soon at the hotel, Ira Studios No2 (Nikita's Appts). From the outside it looked beautiful but Nikita, although a lovely guy has falen a little behind on the maintenance of late. Still, it was great just to have a bed and warmish shower at that point. The rest of our group arrived throughtout the day, including Shain and Kim who it was great to see after 18 months abroad. That night 6 of [View Full Entry]

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Santorini, Thira, Stroggili, or Santa Irini, are many different names for the same beautiful island I visited with my wife for our honeymoon. After reading hundrends of reviews regarding Santorini island I concluded that this was the right choice for our Honeymoon. The next step as you can understand was to book the flight tickets and one of the nicest hotel possible. The first part was easy, since two greek airline companies had about twice everyday direct flights from Athens to Santorini airport. But, the second part.. yes, how to choose the right hotel among hundrends one? Therefore, I started searching [View Full Entry]

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Happy Birthday to Me! Thank you to all of you who sent me birthday wishes on Sunday! It’s been a pretty cool celebration for me this year since not only am I celebrating it with Kels in Greece, but we also had Reed and Sarah here visiting us for four days! They arrived last Tuesday and we had an awesome time! The afternoon they arrived Kelsey surprised me with CAESARS!!! Yup that’s right…Vodka, Clamato, Worcestershire, Tabasco, Celery Salt, Limes, and fresh celery…in Rhodes! Fantastic! Thanks to Tiff who brought everything from Canada last month! What a treat! That night we had [View Full Entry]

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Just thought you might like to see a few images of this island. I am sure that you are already over reading my bits of news but perhaps the photos are worth sending. Love Hil [View Full Entry]

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Walk to Oia at the end of Santorini Roger had some stuff he needed to do so I headed off alone for this one. I left early, 7.30 am, to walk from Fira to Oia. It was a really good walk around the edge of the caldera and took about 3 and ¾ hours. It began climbing up to the highest point of the caldera winding through several other villages. Some of the little streets passed through absolutely fabulous looking villa hotels. I noticed the “Relais and Chateau” signs and the “Small luxury hotels of the world”. As you would expect [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone! I am not going to apologize again for how long it's taken me to get another blog up as I have a)just accepted the fact that I am not going to be able to update this blog as much as I would like (I hope you can accept that, too) and b)I quite happy with the fact that I am out experiencing my trip instead of spend hours behind a computer telling you about it. That's not to say I don't love sharing my adventures with everyone, but I have found myself stressing over not writing as much lately [View Full Entry]

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I have 7 minutes before I am kicked off of this computer, so I am going to make this short. This is no secret, but Santorini is just one of the most beautiful places on earth. It's like Big Sur attempted poorly at an immitation of this. Dave and I managed to find the biggest steal on the island. We stubled across a modest, yet beautiful place tucked right into the cliffs of the Caldera. I will give more detail on the place later as anyone coming here on a bidget needs to stay at this place! Today is Dave's birthday. [View Full Entry]

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