Saturday 15 September 2012

11/09 - 14/09 Santorini

You know those typical postcards you see with really pretty white and blue buildings and the most amazing sunset hanging in the background - that's Santorini and it looks like that every day. People get around on donkeys, eat prickly-pears and bathe in the sunlight. It's one of the most beautiful places in the world and that's an understatement!

Day 1: Got in about noonish, we quickly threw our bags into our dorms, which were actually surprisingly spacious..then we hit the pool which was 4ft at the deepest point. The boys played frisbee and had swim-offs! From here we cleaned ourselves up and hit the town for a feed with the busabout group - stuffed peppers, vegetable rissoto and honey sesame feta! We shopped around for a bit and hit the hay early.

Day 2 - The bucket-list tour! A tourist must see list of all the Santorini beauties - we hit up black beach, red beach, the monastery and went wine tasting on the sea cliff! It was then back to our apartments to scrub up, smoke Cuban cigars and watch the boys shave their heads for a picnic on a cliff edge while watching the sunset.

Day 3 - Up bright and early, we got tickets to see Santorinis active volcano which was responsible for burying the most advance humans on earth B.C, the minoans! We hiked up hundreds of meters above see level, felt the warmth of the volcano sear our legs, smelt the stench of sulphur and ash and learnt the history of santorinis structure. We were fortunate enough to catch the cablecar to the port and caught a glass bottom boat to the hot springs! We bathed in mud, swam in the middle of the Aegean ocean and did sneaky back flips off the boats ledge. Back to the apartment to drink too much, party too hard and go to bars where it's completely acceptable to dance on the bar amongst the drinks and bartenders!

Day 4 - All sorta dieing after last night so we had a mid-day breakfast and visited the beautiful town of Imerovigli for a breath taking sunset and explorations of cliffs and rooftops.

Now it's off to the crazy island of Ios!


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