In my fervor to get these pics and blog out to you all, I forgot to mention where the hell we were!!! Ruba wrote to me saying it looks awesome, but where are you? Absolute paradise, my beautiful little rock-chick. Bring your guitar and we'll do Dead Vanity-Greek Isle style :)

Not that it matters where we are, what day/time it is ;-) but we are in a town called Oia, Island called Santorini ( Thira ) in the Greek Islands. When we hopped the 8 hour ferry ride from Athens ( mind you after a 5 hour train to Bari, and 15.5 hour ferry to Patras, and 2.5 hour bus ride to Athens) knowing only that Santorini was an island in Greece. Embarrassingly, neither Troy nor I knew exactly where this sumptuous little island was. Turns out we are the furthest island south in the cluster of Cyclades before you reach Crete.

As I mentioned before, the island is very small. This is such a cool quality, as we know from our handy Europe map ( which Robert kindly bestowed), because the closest island is 4 hours away! The cluster of small islands that make up Santorini are volcanic, and the volcano ( which is not active) is in the center.

Yesterday we rode on mopeds for the entire day to check out the island at our own pace. Surprisingly, 2 euro of gas allowed us 8 hours of riding and discovery. We put on jackets and helmets, thinking we would not need to buy sunblock. At the end of the day, Troy had cool "x" marks sunburned onto the top of his foot ( from his Chaco sandals) and I had red rectangles burned onto the top of my thighs. The sun is very strong here...and even when its not hot enough to make you sweat, you will get fried!

Today we move out of the hostel in Perissa Beach ( which was awesome by the way-stones throw to the black sand beach) and go north to Oia. The picsture in the blog is from the inside of the place we will stay there....The view is crappy as you can see :P
It was an insane deal for this apartment, which is really a cave built into the mountain. We were lucky in getting the one which is closest to the ocean, and we actually have an ocean view!!!

We leave in an hour to catch the bus up there, because I think riding mopeds with our backpacks on these steep windy roads might not be good. Hopefully the Oia hotel has internet!

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