Thursday July 26, 2007
Stuck on a Beautiful Island... I suppose there sure are many greater problems to have in this life. We made the best of it by heading back to the hotel and rental car area to let them know we'd need the car for another day and that we'd be in the room until checkout (sleeping to store up energy for the next 24-hour haul). After that, with backpacks in the back seat, we headed off to the only internet cafe that seemed to have a connection and booked tickets to Santorini for 5:55 the next morning. We'd be spending the night in the Athens airport as five or six hours was hardly enough time to merit two 45 EUR taxi rides and an expensive hotel in the city.
After a late lunch, we headed north towards the part of the island where Shipwreck Beach sits. Many detours, pit stops to ask for directions, and windy roads later... we found the spot that overlooks the beach from the top. We'd been swimming at it the day before (you can only access it by boat as the cliffs around it are too steep) and now we were hanging over the top of it peering down at the little specks that were people and the miniature ship that loomed above us when we were down there.
Somehow filling up 7 am to 9 pm on Zante was easier than expected and I wondered if it wasn't the most beautiful island I'd ever seen. Compared to Hawaii? Nope... Zante's got it beat. Dominican Republic? Nope... comparable with the mountains but still more beautiful.
I don't think my pictures do it quite justice... but here are a few from Wednesday (by sea) and Thursday (by land).
Scared of heights anyone? 
I am!
Mike's not (Scared of heights)
These guys helped direct us to the right places
After we'd taken a little detour to a fishing village
All the windy roads to get there
So pretty!
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3 comments:
- N August 7, 2007 at 10:52 AM