We have had an incredible four nights here in Santorini, probably one of the most beautiful places we've had the priviledge of visiting in our lifetimes thus far. Its impossible to put into words and our pictures won't even come close to showing how incredible and unique this island is, but we'll do our best to recap what we've been up to while we've been here.
Our first day we took the bus up the northern most point of the island known as Oia. We walked all the way down to the tiny harbour at the bottom of the clif and took lots of great pictures. It was particulary exciting for me as we also got to see the house and area (including the harbour) where they filmed The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, and when I watched the movie for the first time, I thought how insanely beautiful the setting was, so it was pretty sureal to be there in the flesh and see it with my own eyes.
We have been loving the food, eating 2euro Gyros pretty much everyday for lunch and trying a different greek restaurant every night. Our second day we rented an ATV which was so much fun! We toured through the more southern parts of the island and stopped in at the famous red and black beaches.
Yesterday we committed to making the trek down the cliff in the town where our hotel is and climbing down these stairs took a good 30 minutes and we found a nice spot at the end of the harbour to relax and take in some sun for a couple hours (we both got pretty good sun burns!) It was a good 45 minutes to hike back up the 600 or 700 odd stairs and we both were sweating buckets!
The canadian couple we met in Athens also arrived at our hotel yesterday at about 4, So we headed into town together with wine, beer and olives to watch the sunset. We then went out for dinner to a colourful place called Mama's House, where mama herself served us and it was very entertaining and equally delicious! The four of us then went back to the hotel and brought a bottle of Ouzo with us and hung out on our balcony.
We are now getting ready to head to Naxos, our ferry leaves in about 45 minutes! We loved Santorini very much and hope that we will be lucky enough to return sometime in the future.
xo Jenna and Ty
Our first day we took the bus up the northern most point of the island known as Oia. We walked all the way down to the tiny harbour at the bottom of the clif and took lots of great pictures. It was particulary exciting for me as we also got to see the house and area (including the harbour) where they filmed The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, and when I watched the movie for the first time, I thought how insanely beautiful the setting was, so it was pretty sureal to be there in the flesh and see it with my own eyes.
We have been loving the food, eating 2euro Gyros pretty much everyday for lunch and trying a different greek restaurant every night. Our second day we rented an ATV which was so much fun! We toured through the more southern parts of the island and stopped in at the famous red and black beaches.
Yesterday we committed to making the trek down the cliff in the town where our hotel is and climbing down these stairs took a good 30 minutes and we found a nice spot at the end of the harbour to relax and take in some sun for a couple hours (we both got pretty good sun burns!) It was a good 45 minutes to hike back up the 600 or 700 odd stairs and we both were sweating buckets!
The canadian couple we met in Athens also arrived at our hotel yesterday at about 4, So we headed into town together with wine, beer and olives to watch the sunset. We then went out for dinner to a colourful place called Mama's House, where mama herself served us and it was very entertaining and equally delicious! The four of us then went back to the hotel and brought a bottle of Ouzo with us and hung out on our balcony.
We are now getting ready to head to Naxos, our ferry leaves in about 45 minutes! We loved Santorini very much and hope that we will be lucky enough to return sometime in the future.
xo Jenna and Ty
Hi Jen and Ty!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy for you both !! I am reliving many of my own experiences reading yours and it makes my heart melt !!! I can only begin to describe how envious I am that you're in Greece!!
Anyhow, so happy for you both and I'm enjoying reading all about it!!
~Kristyn