Finally we didn’t have to get up at the crack of dawn to be anywhere! We could sleep in!
We had a leisurely breakfast which was wonderful, grabbed the car and headed to the town of Oia.
This is the town where the beautiful blue domed churches are located. As it’s winter pretty much nothing is open but we wandered through the little narrow streets, taking some lovely photos and encountering some donkeys working.
That is how rubble, building materials etc are moved around these small narrow streets, by donkey. The town of Oia is beautiful and fully lived up to my expectations although I can imagine in summer the streets would be jam packed with people. Winter time is for renovating the houses and there was a lot of this going on.
We stopped to have an iced coffee and the rain that we had seen out to sea decided to hit us, although the shower didn’t last very long we had to try & find cover!
We drove around the coastal road for a bit looking at the beaches and admiring the view, until we hit road works and had to head back up this steep road back to the main road. I didn’t think our little car was going to make it!
We headed to the township of Fira, which is the main town, and wondered around looking at all the closed shops until we stumbled upon some souvenir shops that were open. Peter tried the local dessert wine which is made from prickly pear. We also found a restaurant that we decided to come back to for dinner.
Pyrgos was our next stop. We parked the car and walked up to an abandoned fortress. Along the way was a church, then within another 50mtrs another church, and then around the corner another church! And they were all locked.Why so many churches in such a small area? Who knows! Are they buying into the Santorini blue domed cliche?
After going back to the villa to freshen up, we headed back to Fira for dinner at one of the restaurants with a reputation for preparing Greek style smoke grilled fish (we enjoyed a fish platter for two)
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