Our puddle-jumper flight from Athens to the island of Santorini
Let the honeymoon begin!
Narrow streets make for unhappy trails, that is unless you have your trusty donkey at your side.
This particular one happens to be a Mercedes
The view from our room. We stayed in a family-owned guest house hotel, in the island's traditional "cave" style homes, hewn out of solid rock, and clinging to the island's rocky cliffs.
Guy had arranged to have some lovely greeting gifts ready for our arrival.
The living and kitchen area
I did not want to leave this place, I don't know that one would ever be ready.
Our balcony, nothing below but cliffs and water
Greek salad with grape leaves, feta, herbs, olive oil, and capers the size of olives.
Greek coffee - a muddy delight! Yes, I will have cream and sugar with that. Make that 12 sugars.
The first few days we relaxed and enjoyed walking around the island. Due to the heat and overall relaxed nature of Greek life, most shops don't open 'till 10am and remain open until midnight or so.
That's a view you don't soon get sick of. Santorini is known for it's gorgeous sunsets. We stayed in the village of Oia (pronounced ee-ya) and being on the northwestern cliffs of the island, it's views of the sunset are unmatched.
Our third day we chose to board a tour boat headed for the volcanic island just off the coast responsible for forming Santorini.
After hiking the volcano, we stopped off at a less populated neighboring island
A peek at the fantastic blue ocean Greece is famous for
We ate a lot too.
Most evenings we saved some Euro by getting a dinner of bread, olives, and cheese from the village bakery, and ate dessert out instead. This is baklava and some Greek custard-like yumminess.
The sun is incredibly intense, but these guys found themselves a sweet escape.
This is the town of Fira, a 20 min bus ride from Oia where we stayed. It's a larger more commercial city, and a common port for cruise ships.
That's the volcano
When the time came to explore more of Greece we packed up our things and boarded a ferry bound for Naxos.
A lot nicer than I expected for a ferry
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