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Early start required to get to Piraeus for 7.30am ferry to Santorini. 5 minute lug to Metro simplified somewhat having off-loaded one bag boy the previous night.
Our trip across to Santorini on the ferry leaves early from Pireus (about 7.30am) , but it’s an easy train trip from our hotel in Athens. The ferry is fairly new, very clean and comfortable. All passengers have their own lounge chairs, some with tables – ideal for scrabble – Clare beat Paul again! It’s a 5 hour trip across very calm and beautifully blue sea. Approaching Santorini the white homes built on the tops and cliff-face of the caldera look like snow from a distance. We can see the zig zag narrow and very steep road we eventually travel on in the bus from the ferry port to the main town of Thira. It’s only a small town, very tourist orientated, and hard for drivers to negotiate the narrow streets with tourists wandering along the side of, and across the streets at will. On our first night we see road rage develop into hands on fisty-cuffs between 2 locals.
We take a taxi from Thira to the next village .... where we will spend 5 nights at Aeolas Villas. At first we are quite disappointed with our room – it’s too much like a cave for comfort – but our request for something better is rewarded by an up-grade to a one bed-room apartment with views ‘to die for’. Santorini is one place where the pictures on the tourist brochures barely do it justice. It is breath-taking and
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