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Much as I loved
Athens and Delphi, it's a good thing that we did them before we did six days on
Santorini and Rhodes. We left each stop on this trip reluctantly, with me a
little worried that the next stop wouldn't be as great as the last. No worries:
Greece has delivered.
To our pleasure,
our 18-year-old, fresh from college midterms, joined us just before we left
Athens for the Greek islands; our reunited family flied off to Santorini
together.
There we stayed
at what I consider the best accommodations in Santorini, Anemi House, an
yposkafo, a cave home set into the mountainside.
Greece-yposkafoThe
yposkafo once housed donkeys (which still rule as the preferred and most
practical way to transport everything from construction materials to garbage
pickup in these hilly mountainsides) but is now a cozy apartment of pristine
whites and soft, mottled blues looking out onto the Aegean.
We stayed in
Oia, just below the Oia Fortress, fabled for its sunset views. We watched it
from our terrace every night.
It was tough to
leave Anemi House to see what Santorini offers, but we managed to tear
ourselves away for seaside lunches, a sailboat ride to the volcanic island of
Nea Kameni to hike to the rim of the volcanic cone (last eruption, 1956, and we
can see — and smell — the volcano's sulfurous vapors) and a swim in hot
springs.
Another
afternoon, we did the 6-mile hike from Oia to Fira. It's an enchanted cliff
walk, mists emanating from the waters below swirling up around our ankles while
the sun shines down.
We passed
hard-working people preparing hotels and shops for the imminent tourist season.
When we got in a
cab in Fira to head back to Oia, our cab driver burst into laughter when she
heard of our hike. "You're crazy," she said.
One morning, my
oldest daughter, Eliana, and I stayed in Oia, she to study and shop a little, I
to walk around Oia. Gavriela and my husband headed to Akrotiri, a Minoan city
preserved in 25 feet of volcanic ash after an eruption roughly 3,600 years ago.
It was carefully excavated, and now is a sophisticated museum.
Upon her return,
Gavriela burst through the door, saying enthusiastically, "The Minoans
were the best ever!"
After three days
in Santorini, we flew Aegean Air (which I love, from its spacious seats on
Airbus A320s and A321s to its friendly staff and well-thought out inflight
service for 30-minute interisland flights) to Rhodes.
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