Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 99

Ohhh, Santorini!.....my favorite of the Greek Isles we visited. I could definitely hunker down here for a long while. Santorini, again, has most of the villages perched high up on the top of the cliff. It has seaside vineyards, a volcano,ancient ruins, great little restaurants. We only had enough time to do a fast run-through, so I definitely would love to return and explore it properly. We took a very modern, fast cable car to the top...and a very slow, smelly donkey back down to the port at the end of our visit (a decision I regretted the second I climbed on). Probably the longest 30 minutes of my life. The donkey trail zig-zagged straight down the cliff in a series of very steep stairs. The donkeys didn't appear to be paying an enourmous amount of ... read more

It was an early rise towards the port of Piraeus where we had to pick up our tickets at 6am and board the ship. We took our seats and eased back for our 5 hour journey to Santorini via Paros and Ios. When we arrived at Santorini new port we were welcomed by a scrum of taxi drivers with signs begging for a passenger- we swiftly paid to get out of the scrum and to our hotel located Imerovigili. On our way to our hotel the taxi driver surprised us by saying he had never heard of our apartments and began to call his taxi base for directions. As we made our way further and further away from the port- nobody seemed to know where this hotel was located! After a few more calls to the ... read more

I am very sorry that I have not written in a very very long time! SO much has happened in the past three weeks, that we have not been able to slow down long enough to document the places that we have seen. I am currently in Mykonos island in the Greece. It is so so so nice! I love it and completely understand why the Greeks are so laid back in their life style! It is great. We are hanging out on the beaches during the day and taking in wonderful dinners at night. I am a huge fan of the Greek Salad! We have also met two awesome girls from Canada. They have been traveling with us since Tuesday. Here is a quick recap of what we have done in Greece. We started out ... read more

What a difference between Athens and the islands! It is beautiful here! Joe and I slept late this morning (9:30am), which was good because it was the first night we slept past 6am, but bad because we almost missed our flight to Santorini. With a little luck and lots of running through the metro stations and airport, we made our 12:15 flight. The flight was about 50 minutes. Joe however, was not too happy on the small plane that we took. I reminded him that the other alternative to flying was a 9 hour boat trip. He relctantly agreed the flight was the lesser of two evils. All was worth it though when we finally landed, got our rental car (a Mercedes Smart car-which is WAY cute) and made it to our hotel. Our room sits ... read more

We are loving our time in Imergovilli even though we can't spell it, or pronounce it. Apparantly the place to go for all the scenic postcard type shots, (you mean we havn't had the really good ones yet???) is Oia which we saw by boat the other day. Apart from us hard core kiwi adventurers who have been walking everywhere, most people seem to use donkey or quad bike to get around. Not wanting to be outdone, but mainly not wanting to walk all the way to Oia, we hired a couple of quad bikes and headed off. For the record, I got mine up to 53 kmph on the downhill, (Steve claims 55) but the girls thought we had them under control the whole time.. how nice of them to have such blind faith in ... read more