http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Greece , South Aegean , Santorini en-us Sat, 05 Dec 09 04:23:05 +0000 Sat, 05 Dec 09 04:23:05 +0000 Dear Santorini friends we have republished our website.It is not 100 ready but you will get the idea.We try to keep our website up to date and offer more than the most of Santorini releated ones.Our goal is to bring you a more interactive site where you can add comment and review places you have been or seen.Santorini Travel Advisor httpwww.santorinitips.com offers advertising space to k http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-457480.html We've found the newest addition to our favorite locations. We loved Santorini especially Oia. I'm trying to convince Tony to buy a little cave house The October temp was nice and sunny. A little windy though and not warm enough for me Gabriela to get into the water about 75 degrees but we loved it We ended up renting a car to tour the island. It was amazing. Enjoy the pictures gabrielaFo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-449921.html The first day at sea involved sleeping in something we hadnrsquot done since starting our travels. My friend Rachel and I decided to go off and do our own thing in the morning. My decision was to eat a great breakfast at the buffet and then to grab my book and lay by the pool. I found a great lounge chair and just got to enjoy the sun and relax. After lunch I met up with Rachel we hung out http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-444816.html Well this Island was just magical... The postcards don't do it justice at all. Dinner was served on the side of a cliff top overlooking the Caldera on the first night. It was breathtakingly beautiful unexplainable... The food was superb and the 1 liter Rose we drunk in an hour was also fantastic...hehe. It was off to the highlander where we danced the night away splurging on cocktails 2 fo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-444011.html September 30 2009Judy and I awoke to the sun rising over Fira the largest city on Santorini. No time for a sit down breakfast we opted instead for the buffet which was fine. The ship does not dock in Santorini but rather tenders passengers over by smaller boats. Of course the Princess paid tour guests get to go first but we didn't have to wait long for our boat to take us ashore. Since the cro http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-441219.html Which words do I use to summarize one of the most beautiful places I have ever beenI 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-437312.html If there is one thing that you learn when you are traveling by yourself is how to entertain yourself. Not only do you have to be prepared to rely on yourself to deal with all the difficulties that arise to make all the necessary decisions but you have to be in your own company all the time. I know everyone has that problem but it takes on new dimensions when you are traveling alone. Just lik http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-435149.html Location Santorini Weather Sunny 30CAt 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 p http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-434409.html You always save the best for last. And Santorini is truly the best. But I must say it is not that easy to decide on that. Rhodes impressed me a lot. And Crete is something else. But Santorini took my breath away Lost Continent of AtlantisImagine this. Five thousand years ago the island was believed to be a sophisticated outpost of Minoan civilization. Then catastrophe happened. Around 14 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-433481.html This 2day stopover Santorini was booked as it was the only way we could get to Athens that worked with our flight to Copenhagen.We had fun again in Santorini and agree with everyone else that it is a beautiful island. We realized that the first time we were here earlier this summer we got caught in what we call the cruise loop the boat people as Mom likes to call them wander around in a tig http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-432585.html 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 w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-431883.html 1033Our 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 o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-429647.html Day 490 14809Early 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 w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-429457.html 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 yoursquore in your 80s. You wonrsquot look good but you can wear it.3. Donrsquot 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-422265.html Today we had to leave Santorini I wish I had more time here to rent fourwheelers again and go see more beaches but wersquore headed to Turkey tonight so I had to get back. We got to the port around 1045 am for our 1145 am ferry. This was going to get us back to Piraeus at 440 pm giving us about 1 hour 20 minutes to get half a mile to the cruise ship terminal by 6 pm which is mandator http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-419742.html We woke up early today and headed back out on the fourwheelers to a beach called Red Beach. The beach was so cool. It has red sand and red cliffs but the most beautiful blue clear water. We could only stay at the beach for a little bit because we had to return the fourwheelers. We were sad to drop them off but they were so worth it and probably saved us a bunch of money that we would have http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-419741.html Today my friends and I took a 5 hours ferry ride to the island of Santorini. There was a group of 6 of us 4 of which were staying in one hotel and 2 in another. Upon arriving in Santorini the owner of our hotel Babis was there to pick us up. He was so cute The hotel is family owned and operated and was so cute with a pool. We were supposed to have one room with 4 beds but we ended up ge http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-419738.html DAY 78SAILING DAY 6Francine gets up at about 3am and checks that the boat has not moved. At 5am the motor starts up. Angela G has woken the captain as the boat has moved very close to the small beach. We assume positions and set off for the day. After about an hour Francine goes back to bed as she hardly slept during the night whilst worrying about the boat hitting the rocks.We are on our w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-413735.html Today we would be daring. We would live on the crest of fear and redefine danger. Today we would rent a quadbike. Quadbikes look a lot more unstable and unsafe than they really our. Now before you roll your eyes back and think 'what wimps' please remember we had our 1 year old baby with us no space for a baby seat on a quadbike. Of course once we realized that the maximum speed of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-413038.html Wow good day in Santorini Scooters around the island all daywent to the sand houses along the shore drove to the rim of the caldera and over to the Red Beach and then up to Ancient Thira. Finished off the afternoon with a gyro on the beach and then jumped off a good 40 foot cliff into the Aegean Ahhh. . .quick shower and then we all scootered over to Oia to watch the sunest. Now grabbing http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-411566.html