Friday, July 25, 2014

Our last and favorite place (that we have visited) in Greece - Santorini. It is very unique and in our opinion... Amazing! We came here on our first trip to Europe with the kids and loved it. Definitely a place we would recommend seeing.



We took the tour to visit the volcanic island, the hot springs and a quick wine tasting at the end. It is hot today but there is a nice breeze so it is completely tolerable.

The volcanic island is just that - an island of volcanic rock that was the site of an active volcano many years ago. There is nothing on it except volcanic rock and of course the volcano is now dormant, but it is interesting to see where the craters existed and you can feel the hot air and see the smoke from some holes.





It was handy to have my own personal geologist with me to provide some further information.

From the island we travel to the hot springs by boat. They are in the bay of the older volcanic island (the one we visited was the "newer" volcanic island). You have to jump off the boat and swim to where the hot springs exist (about 15 to 20 m). I am not feeling into it, but Ron goes and checks it out. It isn't exactly hot, but cool for him to see and do.



Next we head back to the main land for the final piece of our tour - the wine tasting and Santo wines. Santorini isn't really known for their wines but the white and late harvest wasn't bad.

Fira is the main city in Santorini and where we need to go to get back go our boat. We check out a few of the shops and stop for lunch. I am thrilled because Greek iced coffee (Freddito) is on the menu and Ron is definitely good with a bottle of Mythos. Not to mention the view was spectacular (notice our ship in the background). A little Greek salad and some bread and dips rounds off this delightful meal.




Back on the boat we head to the steakhouse for dinner. Thinking I can have steak back in Calgary any old time (and that Ron makes a mean one) I opt for seafood instead. Just a nice light meal of crab legs, or so I thought. Do you know what 2 lbs of Alaskan King Crab legs looks like?!?! Now you do...



It is massive! I am a little embarrassed to say I ate about 3 quarters of it. Did I mention my clothes are getting tighter!?!? It was SO good and the crab legs were so meaty! Well worth the calories I think.

We say good-bye go Greece tonight as we head off in the sunset to Turkey. Tomorrow we will check out Marmaris.

Location:Santorini, Greece