It's All Relative

Santorini is for Me....

Ok so I have found the most beautiful place in the world. Santorini is seriously out of this world. We took a 9 hour ferry to get there but it was worth every second of it. After geting off the dock, we had a little trouble getting to our hostel, but only because it washidden away in this area where everything looks the same. The hostel was so rad...and cheap too. Like 15 Euros a night. It was tucked away within all these whitewashed villas with blue shutters and bright pink flowers. I mean, places like this don't exist in real life. We were so excited to stay there. The whole hotel is like 3 or 4 little villas all connected together by steep little staircases. It was like a maze. You could even go up to the roof and overlook the sea. It was so awesome. There was even this awesome pool that had this little grotto in it. We were so excited to be there that we immediately jumped in. I am trying to figure out how to send pictures from over here because you really must see it. The next day we rented mopeds and cruuised around the whole island which was so fun. We took this coastal rode that just outlined the sea. It wound up high on the cliffs so you could see the entire island, and the caldera, which is the huge bay in Santorini with this other little island in the middle of it. It was breathtaking.

We found a black sand beach called Perissa and laid out there ALL DAY. I couldn't believe how pretty it was. The water was so clear and sparkly, you could see the bottom even from 25 yards out. We sat under some palapas and met Will, our British bartender babe who brought us cokes and stuff. He was nice. I didn't want to leave that beach....ever. It was insane how picturesque the whole thing was. I almost cried, seriously. You need to go there. You really do.
After Perissa we rode to the opposite end of the island to a little village called Oia. We ate at this great seafood restaurant at the port and all got whole fresh fish. I mean, they literally caught these guys like 10 minutes before we ate them. So good. After dinner we went to this cliff and watched the sunset. Probably the most amazing sunset I have ever seen.

The next day we had a few problems though. The guy we rented our mopeds from wasn't there when we went to return them that morning. Which was a problem because we had a ferry to catach in like an hour and he had our driver's licenses. This nice guy pulled up to the building and asked us if we were waiting for the owner. We said yes and this guy called the owner to come down and open up the store. He was so nice. So finally the guy shows up and we get our licenses back, catch a taxi and make it to our ferry just in time. However, in the midst of all this, Rachel loses her wallet-the one with all her money and credit card in it So we get to the ferry and realize this, but theres nothing we can do until we get back to Athens. I feel really bad for her because she lost her camera too the 2nd day of our trip (she also lost my book, but thats ok because i was done with it anyways...) So yeah, Rachel has had a rought trip. But we got her credit card canceled and her money transferred over to Michelle's account. It still sucks, but things could have been worse.

Byt the way, the Acopolis was rad too. It took awhile to hike up there, and it was pretty hot outside, but you can't even imagine this place. The parthenon is huge. I wish I could have seen how it looked when it was first built, back in the day and what life would have been like. It's so crazy to think of how this thing has stayed so in tact for so long. We also saw Socrates house, which really wasn't his house, just the place where all the representatives of Greece would come and write laws for the entire population to then vote on. Democracy dudes, democracy.

Now after another long ferry ride, we are back in Athens. I am exhausted and hungry. Tomorrow we are on our way to Italy. We have to take a train to this town called Patra and then another overnight ferry to Bari, Italy, then a train to Rome. Should be another hard day.

Seriously Santorini, though was amazing. Please go there...you need to go there. The entire time I felt like I was in really awesome postcard. I couldn't believe that it was real. Greece has been so cool. But I am really looking forward to going to Italy. Well, I am spent and really hungry. Alright, talk to ya soon.

Talk to ya soon!