dancingyel | santorini is so pretty! (Reply)

weeee! cin and i are finally in greece! getting here was a bit of an adventure -- due to the worse than incompetent United staff at SFO, we ended up missing our outbound flight and being rerouted to a completely new, random one. so, instead of going sfo-calgary, calgary-frankfurt, and frankfurt-athens (the original version) we flew sfo-lax, lax-munich, munich-athens and got to athens at around 11pm instead of 6pm. this meant that we had enough time to take the bus to our hostel, shower very quickly, and take a 3.5 hour nap before getting up before 5am to take the metro to the port, where we got on an 8-hour ferry ride to santorini. that actually wasn't too bad -- i didn't get motion sick at all, a rarity for me, and we even slept a little. our hotel in santorini is pretty cute, and the island is super pretty. still, jet lag is catching up and we're both pretty out of it, especially me. ah, well. we're staying in fira, the capital of santorini, and right now we're in oia, a city on the northern edge of the island. it's famous for its sunsets, so we're gonna watch one and then catch the bus back to fira for dinner and sleep. tomorrow, the plan is to take the bus to kamari, which has one of the famous santorini black-sand beaches. so exciting!

anyhow, we're off to wander about some more and possibly drink more iced coffee. it's so hot here!