Santorini, Greece!

After our short stay in Ios, we were excited to get to Santorini! Everyone told us that this is the place to go in Greece, like out of the movies! We took a ferry from Ios to Santorini. When we got off the boat, we walked into a nearby accommodation place where some lady helped us find a nice place to stay. We were met by a van who picked us up and took us across the island to the Holiday Beach Resort. We are getting spoiled by Greece! For only 30 Euro a night (15 each) we had our own little room with our own bathroom, a fridge, tv and balcony. It was great!

After getting settled in, we decided to make our way over to Fira - the central town on the island. Our hotel was in Perissa, near the black beach, across the island from Fira, but only a short bus trip away.

The rest of the day, we wandered around the town, watched the sun before it set behind some clouds, bought a couple oil paintings, and ate a light dinner. We also stopped at a small bead shop and made some sweet key chains with our greek letters on them. I know we arent in college anymore, but when else would we be able to make something out of greek letters… in Greece!

After the afternoon and evening in Fira, we made our way back to our hotel. There we could sit at the pool/bar area of the hotel and use their internet. So we checked up on a few things and got to skype with our parents : ) Traveling around, we have come to realization that at home we take the internet for granted. But it was nice to catch up a bit. The next day was a perfect beach day! We walked down the road to the black beach where we spent most of the afternoon lounging on beach chairs and we split a delish fruit smoothie! It was a perfect day for the beach - it reminded us of being home! We got to read, nap and swim in the Mediterranean for the first time! After a warning from my brother (Robbie) we soon knew what it was like to swim in such salty waters! The water was so clear, we could see everything, and it was very deep. We tried to swim down to touch the bottom, but we couldn’t do it! It was the weirdest feeling, we were trying to swim down, but not going anywhere! After we were nice and tan we headed back to the hotel, then on to Oia to watch the sun set!

We took a bus to Oia (a town that is ideal for sunsets) and made it just in time to meet the other thousands of tourists crowed around and watched the sun set again behind clouds. Oia was very picturesque and lovely, so it was a great quick trip.

After the sun went down we walked around Oia looking for a place to eat dinner. We thought it would be a good idea to have 1 nice dinner in each country we visited, and Santorini was it for us! So we found a table at some Seagull Café and got dinner. We started out with some Tzatziki, which is like a yogurt dip with bread. All I wanted was a true Greek salad, and that’s what I got with chicken and it was sooo yummy! Ally got chicken soulvaki (skewer) with ‘mashed potatoes’ which turned out to be French fries haha. We also managed to share some amazing house rosé wine! Not a bad night. After that, we headed home and checked out the next morning. Now on to Rome!