We enjoyed our Greek style breakfast overlooking at the great Caldera sea.

Today we hired a car, acending from our cave like dwelling (SC: 294) we headed to the car rental place where I laid down exactly what I wanted and the dude behind the counter said “I wish all my customers were as good as you” he didn’t have to do any work as we knew exactly what we wanted (Thanks wikitravel). Off we went to visit the Archeology museum in Thira to see the things that were taken out of the ground in Akrotiri. After a significant debacle trying to find parking and several attempts to park in people’s front lawns, shopping only parking spots and even a spot reserved for this very popular X person (that actually means no parking), we found a almost full parking lot that we parked in. Not having a detailed map of Thira we decided to wing it to try and find this museum as all we knew was that it was in Thira. We walked, and walked and walked and finally gave up and stopped into a hotel to try and get an idea of where to go or a map. Spotting a map we grabbed it only to be accosted by an overly ambious hotel owner who wanted us to try his souvlaki and then take a tour of the island including Oia (where we were staying) which we rapidly declined.

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Due to exhaustion we slept late however rose with enough time to enjoy a greek lunch. We checked in at the office to met the owner however there was a sticky sign on the door that said “back in 10 minutes”. Deciding that we would wait the 10 minutes we headed off to the market to pick up some provisions for the week. We purchased a selection of goodies including Greek Yogurt, wine, cheese, turkey, wine, jam, honey, wine and some fresh juice. We returned with our shopping to the office about 15 minutes later to find a sign on the door that said “back in 10 minutes” so we decided that perhaps we missed the owner so we decended (SC: 84) to put our shopping away and return about 20 minutes later to meet the owner (SC: 126).

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We finished our rather choppy boat ride in Santorini in the wee hours of the morning. We were greeted at the dock by a rather polite but short police man (or possibly a woman it was late) that asked us to “Move please along”. We quickly spotted our transfer and boarded the minibus headed to our cliff side villa. The driver then promptly disappeared, we pursume to try and find more victums, err passengers for his ascent up the side of the cliff.

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We rose early to get the moat walk in after a quick breakfast. We headed down to walk around the outskirts of the city. After missing the entry at our closest gate twice we walked almost the entire wall before we found a way into the moat. We then proceeded to find all these cave like holes into the inner moat and inner wall that was NOT an exit no matter no much you squeezed up paths that were clearly the den of some creature. After walking around to our gate (gate 6 by the graffiti on the wall) we stalked two other moat walkers and found the exit.

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Today was a “Oh shit, its 9:20 and breakfast stops getting served at 9:30” day. For each of the days that we stayed at Nikolis Hotel we broke our fast on the roof top overlooking the old city. Each breakfast was similar but not the same, there was vegetables (usually tomato and cucumber), fruit (grapes, kiwi, cantaloupe , cheese and meats (yummo), Greek yogurt (with jam, marmalade and muesli), orange juice, some kick ass coffee (possibly the best coffee I have tasted so far), bread and a hard boiled egg. Breakfasts like this are bloody awesome and really get you off to a good start.

They were served by a young lass that also tended the bar in the evenings (although sadly we were never around earlier enough to sit and enjoy a carafe of wine in the court yard).

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We had arranged to hire a car for two days, after the driving display on the way in I figured that if there were no rules, why the hell not! So we met with one of Marianne’s friends who rents cars and were quickly sorted out with a chevy (which we then later saw a daewoo version of the same car with the same name) little sporty number with a sun roof.

Given the reckless abandon for rules, we decided to splurge for the 8 Euros extra a day for full insurance (I figured that accident chances were high). We were given a list of things to do;

East coast!
Kallithea
Fertility Temple
Acropolis of Rhodes
Ceramics

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Our fantastic host Marianne provided some suggestions of things to do in Old Town;

– Arabic library
– Grand-masters Palace
– Knights road
– Archaeological Museum
– Three windmills
– Old Town history museum
– Colossus of Rhodes site
– Moat Walk / Wall Walk

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Arriving about an hour late, we met our driver waiting with our sign who then complained that he waited for an extra hour that he could have picked other people up in that time. Little did we know that this dude was actually the husband (possibly) of the operator (and maybe owner) of the hotel that we were staying at.

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Upon arriving home (late as usual) the remainder of the clothes were packed and we made our way to a very poorly marked Delta terminal. 9 hours doesn’t seem like a long time when its written down on paper. We had decided that we would check a bag since it would be easier than rolling around with several little carry ons.

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