Monday, May 28, 2007

The Greek Isles

Or first stop

KORFU






Rocky Beach


KATAKOLON


Another rocky beach, this island is considered "the gateway to Olympia" it was about 30 min away from port and was very expensive to we opted for shopping and the rocky beach.

SANTORINI

This island was sweet, 600 steps up and you can either take a tram or a donkey. We did both. This island is a volcano island, sunken from volcanic activity many times. The locale of the supposed city of "Atlantis". Also thought to be the island where the Sirens lived and lured Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. (Isn't history great)



We thought the donkey's were a fun idea until we jumped on and saw that is sheer animal cruelty and Nate's donkey almost underwent cardiac arrest. So when his donkey stopped for the hundredth time 100 steps away from the top we just got off and walked the rest the way.





Of course, the day after the jazz game the first thing we did when we got to the city we found an Internet cafe. Nate was very excited and very much wanted to hear the highlights while watching... the head phones didn't work however and his head was to big anyway... but he was not distracted from reading the articles to take off his ridiculous headphones.


Oh Yeah!!

The blue dome in the way way back ground is a signature church of Santorini. This is as close as we got.





They build houses into the caves and don't need air conditioning

1 comment:

Pam said...

I can't believe how incredibly beautiful the scenery is! This is now on my "must see in this lifetime" list. What an awesome experience!