Besides Fira and Ia, there are many smaller towns on Santorini. A sudden rain shower almost kept me from enjoying one of my favorite unexpected experiences, but thankfully, the dark cloud passed quickly by. Our bus driver dropped us off at one end of Megalochori, and...
Let’s take a look back at this “Optional Tour” off Santorini. We’d left our hotel at 1:30, took another wild bus ride down the side of the caldera, boarded a fully-appointed sailing vessel, made our first stop to hike up a volcanic island,...
“They said” we’d have an opportunity to swim in the Aegean Sea during this optional add-on tour. What they didn’t tell us was that we’d be instructed to literally jump off the boat to do so! But I was here for the adventure, and I gamely...
Our “Sunset Dinner Cruise” began at 1:30 in the afternoon. That’s when Mary (with the perfect Greek look!) directed us to board the full-sized bus to head back down that zig-zag road with seven hairpin turns. (Don’t. Look. Down!) The wooden...
We left the port and zig-zagged our way up (and I do mean UP) to our hotel in Fira. Fira (Fee-air-uh) is the largest city on Santorini. Both Fira and Ia (or Oia, both spellings pronounced Eye-uh) are literally perched on the top, and clinging to the edge, of the...
