Greek Life: Santorini!

This past weekend, I went to Santorini with my friends Jamie and Diana. It was kind of a last minute trip when we decided to go so when we booked our flights, we did not end up together. Jamie and Diana left late Thursday night and had a 7 hour layover in Athens getting them to the island at about 6:30 am. I left early Friday morning and got to Santorini at about 2pm. The place we stayed was a family run villa close to the Thira, the capital. They were absolutely amazing, so nice and helpful with whatever we needed. We got picked up and dropped off at the airport and they made us breakfast each morning. When I met up with them on Friday we were all pretty exhausted from traveling and the weather wasn't great. We crashed in the room for a short siesta and then took a walk into town to find some dinner. Our host gave us a suggestion and then even drove us there!

On Saturday, we booked an excursion through the hostel. It was only 35 EUR and included a bus tour of the island with a few stops, then a boat cruise to the volcano, swimming in the hot springs, and sunset viewing from the tip of the island. It was absolutely the best thing we could have done. In one day we did basically everything there was to do on the island. Here's the readers digest list of what that all involved.

1. visited three high points on the island
2. hiked to the top of an active volcano
3. swam in the hot springs of that volcano
4. rode a donkey from the water to a village at the top of the cliffs
5. climbed 288 steps to the place where all the post card shots are taken from to watch the sunset

I could go into more detail but this would be a very long post. So instead I'll let you take a look at my pictures and let them do the talking. Here are few teasers and then the link to the rest of them on facebook. (you don't need a profile to see them)