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Santorini is everything and more that I had hoped it would be...

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August 12th 2010
Two down, one to go… Santorini is the last island of our little mini-adventure and if I’m honest probably the one that we had the most expectations about - given that we’d been putting away any spare cash from our daily budget into a ‘Santorini Fund’ so we could afford to do more things in Santorini, well it isn’t the type of place where you can be a beach bum! We took a taxi to the ... read more

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Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In Worl... ... read more