May 3, Thursday,
we were now in Santorini, Greece!
Actually, we were anchored in the Aegean Sea and would be tendered from
the ship.
Santorini is a small circular
archipelago of volcanic islands. Looking
out this morning it appeared that we were surrounded by snow covered mountains
but what appeared to be snow were whitewashed villages on those mountain
tops.
Again our group met for breakfast and then got on a tender for a ride into port. After getting to the port there was 3 ways of getting to the village above, climb 588 steps,ride a donkey or take a cable car. Most of us, except for Bruce who walked the steps, took the cable car.
Many shops lined the narrow streets.
Tom and I walked about checking out the merchandise not buying anything. We did stop at a restaurant to get something to drink (diet coke, 3.50 euros each about $5.00) and shared a piece of baklava which was delicious.
Because I was not feeling any better today we returned to the ship via tender early this afternoon. Tom and I, along with Bruce and Cricket, went to the 7 pm evening entertainment which was a hypnotist, Christopher Caress. For dinner, arrangements had been made for our entire group to go to a specialty restaurant, Qsine, for the 8:30 pm dinner. A rather unique dining experience of an animated video display on the table before each course depicting the catching of the octopus tentacles for the soup, snaring a lobster(lobster tail), and grilling the steak (filet minon) and then rolling a snowball (ice cream)for dessert. Nice meal but at a cost of $44.00/person.
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Again our group met for breakfast and then got on a tender for a ride into port. After getting to the port there was 3 ways of getting to the village above, climb 588 steps,ride a donkey or take a cable car. Most of us, except for Bruce who walked the steps, took the cable car.
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| That's a Long Ways Down There... |
Many shops lined the narrow streets.
Tom and I walked about checking out the merchandise not buying anything. We did stop at a restaurant to get something to drink (diet coke, 3.50 euros each about $5.00) and shared a piece of baklava which was delicious.
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| Baklava and a Coke |
Because I was not feeling any better today we returned to the ship via tender early this afternoon. Tom and I, along with Bruce and Cricket, went to the 7 pm evening entertainment which was a hypnotist, Christopher Caress. For dinner, arrangements had been made for our entire group to go to a specialty restaurant, Qsine, for the 8:30 pm dinner. A rather unique dining experience of an animated video display on the table before each course depicting the catching of the octopus tentacles for the soup, snaring a lobster(lobster tail), and grilling the steak (filet minon) and then rolling a snowball (ice cream)for dessert. Nice meal but at a cost of $44.00/person.
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