Santorini, Greece

We boarded the plane in Rome and had a painfully long and confusing lineup to get our tickets.  Luckily, security was a breeze.  While waiting for the plane we met a really nice family from California [also vegetarians] who were on their way to Santorini.  They had just spent some time in Tuscany and we bonded over our love of the region.

The flight to Athens was pretty non-eventful.  There was a little italian kid kicking the back of my seat the entire trip.  I tried shooting his parents an exasperated look, but they were not interested in

We had a bit of a wait in Athens and, once again, we spent the time chatting with the Morse family.  Quinncy and John [their 13 year old] played chess and scrabble.  Alan Morse plays guitar in a band called Spock's Beard [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock's_Beard].  They just played the High Voltage Festival in London and decided to continue on with a family vacation.

The flight to Santorini was very quick.  We arrived at 11:30 and caught a taxi to Oia.  The taxi ride was a little scary.  It was quite dark when we arrived so we did not have a really good sense of the view from our deck.  This is what we saw when we woke up the next morning:

There are several stray dogs in Oia that stop by our place and every visit delights Ella:

We did not do much the first day in Oia, as we were recovering from the long day in airports.  We rented a car, walked around the strip and checked out the church directly behind our villa:

We watched the sunset in Oia,  which was amazing and planned a trip to Red Beach the next morning.