Santorini Love

Last day in Crete visited Elafonisi Beach like a lagoon again really nice saw a sea slug was ick and had a nice last night chatting to our neighbours (Hi Jess & Gav!) and listening to french students kareoking which drowned out the crickets for once.

Got up early (6am)to get the ferry boat to Santorini, packed up our tent in the dark and turned on Jane who told us we would get to port at 9.30 which was no good to us as the boat left at 8.50 so we raced!! off to the port in Heraklion. Saw the sun rise on the way.


Hardly any petrol left in Gordon and with about 10 mins to go before the ferry left we got lost and sort of resigned ourselves to not going. Then finally found a port sign, parked gordon, legged it over to the ticket desk and the lady said "boat is delayed it might arrive about 12 or 1 or 2 or 3 ... maybe." So turns out being in Greece does work out sometimes when you are really late and disorganised. So the 8.50am ferry turned into the 2ish in the afternoon ferry and we spent about 5 hours sitting in the port waiting room with loads of backpackers and dogs and this little boy who kept whacking our suitcase for some reason.




Finally boat arrived although nobody told anyone (it was so enormous couldn't believe they could have missed it) so then there was a mass rush for it and so many people were trying to pour onto it the cars waiting to get off couldn't even move. The backpackers kept knocking everyone over when they turned around and one man looked like he was dragging a dead body up the stairs or it might have been bricks. We sat on patio furniture on top deck of the boat and spent a nice few hours sailing along, saw some puppies and everyone was drinking beer and eating massive plates of gyros.

Finally got to Santorini port and got picked up and taken to our hotel. It was the cheapest but still nice with a pool and having a bed is llooovveeelllyy.



First night we went out to get some food in Perissa and there was a blackout everbody went oooohhh and one man fell off his bike. It happens nearly every night.

Have visited Perissa Beach, Black Beach and Red Beach and the sand is so hot it really does sizzle. Hired out a quad bike on the second day (got given helmets mine has a cat trying to shoot a duck on it, mat looks a bit like mr potato head in his) and have been to Thira and Oia both gorgeous all little white winding streets packed with tourists, shops and donkeys.