The ever elusive Ri here again. We are on the boat on our way to Santorini having just left Mykonos.
Mykonos has been amazing, we stayed at one of the more secluded beaches and I splurged a little for Tory’s B-Day. Our Hotel was on a hilltop overlooking a little bay full of crazy blue water which the Suite that they upgraded us to had unobstructed views and even a little balcony area with sun bed and arm chair which we put to good use. As it was a long way from everywhere (except the beach we decided to get a car for a couple of days and explore the island. So we picked up our little red beast who we named Sparta!!! (the tourist shops love 300) and headed out to explore Mykonos. We explored the tiny little white streets of the main town, had and awesome Fruit Juice / Salad at a place near little Venice (thanks Super Celebrant) and had lunch at a place where our feet were splashed by the beautiful water. In summary Awesome.
We appear to have timed our trip perfectly as everywhere is open but no one is here.
So for Tory’s Birthday I had the day all planned out, and then only managed to execute half of it because it is the greek islands and too easy to just get into relax mode. We started the day with breakfast in bed and then headed to the beach for a nice long swim. I can’t get over how clear and blue the water is. We just floated there for a couple of hours and let the fish just swim right up to us....until one got a bit cocky and decided to nibble V then we made sure they kept their distance. So after a swim and a sunbake (Mediterranean sun, got to love it) we headed off to find a little restaurant on the other side of the island that had no electricity and cooked everything on a wood fire. The food was good but when you order calamari expect a whole squid. The tentacles were fine but the fins at the top where a little to much for me. After that we went and picked up the cake I had organised and went back to the hotel to enjoy it.
I think that so far the greek island are one of our favour places. It is so different to anywhere else we have been and in the words of Tory how she imagined a holiday should be. Wed have had a Great time would easily spend another month here. But its not over yet we cant wait to see santorini which we have been told will blow our minds.
Santorini
...........And it did. We tried to get a couple of sneak peeks as we came into the harbour but as we were stuck in the middle of the fairy all we could see was the bottom of the cliffs. We emerged from the fairy and wow Santorini is a spectacular place with its sheer cliffs and magnificent harbour / creator filled with brilliant blue water. We hadn’t organised a hotel ahead of time as we had been told it was pretty easy to just get one from the harbour and it was although I wasn’t very good at haggaling as the first place that offered me a room sounded like and ok rate and looked pretty good. It was a little it out of the main town but was nice enough and run by two nice old greek men. Not wanting to go out we got some takeaway which turned out to be the best falafel Tory has ever had.
The next day we had some breakfast, played with the resident cat (Smelly) and went and hired a Quad Bike (ie Spike). It was only 50cc so it had a bit of trouble getting up some of the hills with the two of us but was heaps of fun and I think is definitely the best way to see the Island. Tory even did a couple of donuts in a parking lot. With Spike we trekked from one end of the island to the other soaking in the amazing cliff top views. We had lunch at the Harbour on the north island and watched the schools of fish devour the bread not consumed but the costumers. We again got a precarious seat right on the waters edge where if you dropped a knife you would have to go diving for it. We were tempted to take a Donkey ride up the hundreds of steps to the town but he looked a little temperamental so we hoped back on spike and hooned off to the other end of the island. The beaches aren’t as nice as Mykonos but the views are incredible.
After a quick rest and another world class falafel we headed back to Ia to see the sunset. Like everything else at Santorini it was spectacular we watched the sun go down over the water and then raced back along the cliff tops to see the harbour bathed in twilight. All in all Santorini and the greek islands are one off if not the most beautiful and fun places that we have been. We were envious of the people getting off the fairy as there holidays on santorini were just beginning and ours were ending. We are once again on the fairy back to Mykonos from which we head to Rome. I am looking forward to Italy but it has a lot of work to do if it wants to impress us as much as Greece has.
Cheers
Ri
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