Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 70

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: Delos and Mykonos Weather: Sunny, 26 °C Delos has to be the windiest place on earth! Our guide told us that there were only two types of hairstyle on Delos - the windy look or hat hair! We arrived in Delos by tender boats and it was a very choppy trip to the dock. By law no one is permitted to live on Delos or swim in its waters (except the security guards). The whole island is one giant archaeological site. The city itself must have been huge and was a significant religious centre and trading port for the ancient Greeks. No one died or was born on Delos, they had to travel to the neighbouring island for births and deaths. All food was grown on the other island or imported. Delos was throbbing with ... read more

August 22 - August 28 To get to Mykonos we took a slow, six hour ferry. Booking and getting to the ferry wasn't a problem, however getting a seat was. On the boat Zara and I scouted out the most comfy seats available and found a great spot next to a window. Slowly but surly the seats around us were filling up. Then suddenly people were being evicted from their seats. See, you needed a reservation. We didn't know this but found out we could reserve on the boat for a small fee. Well, when we went to do this the lady in front of us got the last two seats. By this time every other free seat was taken. So, we had to sit in the aisle for the remaining five hours. When in Europe ... 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