Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Time for a 4 hour cruise...Here we come Santorini!

This morning was another EARLY morning. We had to be at the port by 6am to catch a ferry to Santorini. The seats were comfortable so Adam and I were able to sleep for a couple of hours.
The Ferry Seats

 After  we woke up Adam got us some "greek coffee" which tasted a bit weird since it had the grounds in it. There fore my motion sickness started to kick in. Luckily Katie brought us some dramamine just in case and I was able to pop one of those and 30 min later just fine.  We landed around noon at the port and caught our transfer to the hotel. Our hotel room was so beautiful. It was overlooking the Aegean Sea and the Volcano.

Our Balcony
The View
Another shot of our Balcony
Since we had a small kitchen in our apartment Ana, the concierge, gave us a map to get to the main city Fira. It's about a 30 min walk to get to the edge of town, probably 45 to get to the other side of town. We found a great grocery store and got some food for snacking on and bottled water. Oh note about Santorini...you can't drink the water. On the way back to the hotel we found a great Gyro shop and got a late lunch.

Yum Gyros
They also serve frozen greek yogurt which was delicious. The owner was an american girl who married a greek. They opened up the take away stand together. She was super nice and it was nice to talk to an american there too. Well after our snacking we walked back to the hotel which took awhile since I was carrying a lot of groceries and adam was carrying 6 liters of water.

The View as we walked back from Fira to Imerovigli
We dropped off our food and headed to the pool to cool off and relax, which turned into sleeping. We laid out by the pool for awhile and watched the sun start to set. Then headed back to our room to have some snacks and hangout on our balcony.


The pool with a view of the volcano

lounging around

The sun setting in the distance

Finishing up the sun set as we hung out on our balcony

Dinner snack of crackers various greek cheeses and olives


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