Santorini

Greetings from the Cyclades! It's nice here in a picture postcard kind of way - blindingly whitewashed buildings, blue domed churches, sparkling turquoise pools clinging to cliff edges, exclusive hotels, tourist trap shops, and everywhere you look, the cobalt blue of the Aegean.

We've spent four days here exploring the island, including catching a boat out to the middle of the caldera so that we could hike up the side of the currently dormant volcano, doing a three hour cliff top hike around to the town of Oia (or as Rachel has now named it, Oy) which is famous for its sunsets, and yesterday we hired a car and zipped from one end of the island to the other. It was fun once you got used to being on the wrong side of the road, car etc. It's certainly much nicer here than on Mykonos, but then we've also had sunshine here rather than wind and rain and that's got to help!

Well, this is only a short post since I'm almost out of time and we have our ferry to catch back to Athens - all seven hours. At least after the last big ferry trip where we froze, were washed with sea spray, shortened our lives due to passive smloking and had to balance precariously on plastic garden chairs, the First Class Lounge option sounds much more stylish!