Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Santorini

After rising insanely early we successfully lugged all our bags to the
port. We relaxed for the eight hour ferry ride and found ourselves in
Santorini.

We had a really hard time determining which port our ferry would dock
at. The famous port is Fira which has a crazy steep cliff you have to
maneuver to get to the town. The only way to get to the top is to ride
on a mule or walk the steps and dodge the mule "leftovers". (see
picture below) when the ferry door opened we found ourselves at
Athinios port with a line of buses waiting. For less than €2 each we
were taken up the switch backed roads to Thira.

We found Hotel Keti with ease and enjoyed an amazing meal at Stani
Taverna. We tried Greek Retsina which is wine that gets its flavor
from pine resin. It was different but tasty.

Tomorrow is the holiday of May Day so we're not sure what our options
are but with the breathtaking view from our hotel we aren't worried on
the least.

We'll get more pictures of the view tomorrow.

Below is the Caldera at sunset. The path you see is the one we avoided
the mule ride up.

2 comments:

Laura A said...

Oh my goodness! That path is crazy! And and 8 hour ferry ride? What did you do for 8 hours? There is only so much Gotto one can handle!

Jerry said...

LOL I say what Laura a said! What a whacky trail!