Sun in Santorini.

Breath taking! A 2 hour trip by ferry from Crete but it took us 7 1/2 hours by plane with delays and missed connections!

I now know why they still why they have all the scaffolding up on the antiquities, they haven't finished yet! Athens Airport, Easter Sunday, the systems are down, so take all the people off the counters so that no-one will ask pesky questions. Patience is a virtue here but it is also a necessity, it all came out right in the end and here we are in Santorini.

Buildings of blinding white cascading down the cliff with brilliant blue doors all around the Caldera of the slightly less than extinct volcano! It is like walking through a Post Card. We ran into a lovely Jeweller called Raymond Khan. He was a Cricket fan and knew all about the Basin Reserve! We also almost walked out with a lovely bracelet for Kerry for a cool 2000 euro ($4000 in real money) we bargained him down from 4,400 euro! Very persuasive but we were very resolute, the balance on the Credit Card helped the decision!

We are in a little hotel about 10 mins walk out of Fira it is very concrete with a barrel roof and everything, it looks out over the swimming pool.

First order of business was the washing! We both were on our hands and knees kneading and rinsing about 10 days of accumulated washing. It is hanging out of our window! This seems to be a normal way of doing things here, a way of sharing what you have with your neighbours who live all of 2 feet away. I'm not sure that it will catch on in Kingfisher Close!

Dinner last night an exquisite Greek Salad, for those of you that know of my dislike of Tomatoes will be shocked to know that I ate them all, I had too, there was nothing else and I was hungry, I thoroughly enjoyed them and no ill effects! Souvlaki to follow; Kerry had the fish and I had her red Wine as well.

The food in Greece has been far superior to what we had in Italy except perhaps in Dolo. Nice and reasonably inexpensive.

We are off to explore the Northern village on the Island on the Bus another adventure!

Mike