Athens & Santorini - ah Santorini

This blog will probably be a little shorter than normal. My power cable stopped working last night so we are on borrowed time.

After leaving from the Amalfi coast and a short stopover in Rome(will skip that section as once again, it involved far too much walking), we descended onto Athens. I had been told not to spend much time in Athens as it wasn't that great. But I was surprised. It was clean and people where friendly. We were staying in the Plaka area which is the nice area to stay in and has all the resturants, the acropolis etc. It was about 30 deg but there was a nice breeze.

The day we were there, we didn't feel like walking to much so we got on one of the little red trains that wind there way through the Plaka and down all the side streets. I was like a train the kids go on at an amusement park.

We did the obligatory stop at the acropolis which seems to be constantly undergoing restoration works to fix up the previous restoration works.

The next day we took the ferry to Santorini. The first of the islands we are stopping at and from what we hear, the most beautiful. We go a bus ride to the main town and the plan was to catch a taxi from there. When we asked the taxi driver through he just pointed up the road and said 'up there' and drove off. Obviously too short a ride. We didn't try another and thought maybe it wasn't that far. We set off with our bags up the steep and cobblestone pathways through the main town. To cut a very long story short, about an hour or an hour an half later we finally arrived. Here's Krishni heading up one of the easier non-cobblestone portions. She showed her mettle.

We were tired when we arrived but after a short rest we soon got to experience the magic that is santorini - watching the sunset. We decided to splurge on a nice place so the views from our place were gorgeous. This is looking out our front door.

The desert for this portion of the trip was to be baclava. We had far too much.

Sunset.
Breakfast on the deck. It was a great way to start the day.

We also decided to take a boat trip around the volcano rim and to watch the sunset.

A sax player came out of the wood work for about 20 min's to give us a few tunes.

The other dish to try was the octopus. This one obviously wasn't a small one.

Will end with a few photo's around Santorini. Very picture perfect.

PS. Thanks for all the well wishes. It is good to hear them.