another quick update from greece
Jun. 23rd, 2008 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancingyelCin and I are back in athens, after s lovely few days on gorgeous Santorini! It's a beautiful island, with very blue water, gorgeous cliff views, black-sand (or, really, black-pebble) beaches, and lots of antiquities. Cin and I spent our only full day there on the beach, bobbing around in the rather strong waves and laying under an umbrella, reading. We also spent a lot of time wandering about Fira, poking around the shops, taking in the views, and eating yummy Greek food. Best lamb ever! Also, best baklava ever. Yum! Yesterday, we had a half-day before our boat, so we went to the small and very informative museum of prehistoric Thera (another name for Santorini), then took a bus to Akrotiri. Sadly, the excavations have been closed for a few years since something collapsed and killed a visitor, so the only thing left to do was to hike, in our sandals and skirts, to the Red Beach. A bit of an adventure, but we seem to have made it ok! Then, we got back to Fira and immediately hopped on a bus to the Volcan Wine Museum, a really cool little museum on wine-making on Santorini. There was an audio tour and some entertaining robotic figures, and we got to taste yummy wines! I even bought a bottle to take back -- relatively inexpensive, yummy white wine! Then we went back to Fira and were taken to the ferry, where I, miraculously, didn't get sea-sick, despite how terribly rocky it was for some of the time.
Today, we discovered that we lost our guide book at some point yesterday -- not sure when or where, we had it on Santorini, so it got lost between then and now. Made a little trip in search of a new one, which was frustrating but successful in the end. Eventually, we made our way to the National Archaeological Museum, which has all sorts of cool, excavated stuff -- very cool, though we were somewhat overwhelmed by the end. Vases and statues of various gods and humans are very cool, but after 10 rooms of each, they all start to look the same. Still, pretty awesome.
Tomorrow, we're off to Delphi for the day, and then we fly to Israel at 2am! Meep! Should be a fun day, though!
Today, we discovered that we lost our guide book at some point yesterday -- not sure when or where, we had it on Santorini, so it got lost between then and now. Made a little trip in search of a new one, which was frustrating but successful in the end. Eventually, we made our way to the National Archaeological Museum, which has all sorts of cool, excavated stuff -- very cool, though we were somewhat overwhelmed by the end. Vases and statues of various gods and humans are very cool, but after 10 rooms of each, they all start to look the same. Still, pretty awesome.
Tomorrow, we're off to Delphi for the day, and then we fly to Israel at 2am! Meep! Should be a fun day, though!
