Sunday, June 23rd
This morning, we caught a tender to Santorini - this was the one Greek island that we were most excited about seeing. Once there, we took a small boat to the port at Oia and then a bus to the town of Oia. We walked around the town for two hours taking lots of photos - we had amazing views of the sea. We had read online that we just HAD to try the baklava there in Oia at it was the best ever there. So, of course, we found ‘Lotza’ restaurant to try a piece - it was expensive, but 'when in Oia', as they say. The baklava was very nice, but very rich. The views from the restaurant were beautiful. We took a bus from there to another town called Fira and walked around there for a while.
We had a gelato at ‘Zotos’ (another recommendation from online) which was a nice way to end the day. To get back to the tender, we had three choices: walk down 600 steps, take a donkey down or take a cable car. We decided to walk down the steps (stepping carefully around the donkey poop) - we slipped a number of times, but managed to not fall. :-) I have to say that we were disappointed with Santorini - we had often heard about how beautiful it was and the views from the towns of Oia and Fira were stunning. However, the two towns were very crowded, full of souvenir shops and there really weren't very many blue domed roofs which is what we see when we see postcards or photos of Santorini.
Steps for the day: 15, 554
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