Santorini tour

Sitting here on the top of the volcano. Connections still working. Yesterday we stayed in Rethymnon in a genuine house named Irina Rooms. The place was close to the seafront and all the tavernas. The elderly lady who rented the room invited us into her own livingspace, and served lemonade. A very nice place to stay and a very nice gesture on her account. Things like that make you want to return, even though the standard of the room was average. Rethymnon is a swinging town with a not-so-silent nightlife. Actually yesterday we wondered if there were some kind of minoan sportsgame going on in the street outside our window. Maybe some modern version of that game where you are supposed to jump over a bull...According to the frescoes in Knossos that is what the old cretan sportsmen and women used to do. >

P.S Later when we got home, we read in the finnish newspapers the reason for the "minoan games" in Retymnio: Students at the Rethymnon Universitydemonstrating.


Heraklion is modern so the daytrip to Knossos by Heraklion offered both ancient sights and many a modern construction.

By the way: I figured out the main attraction of Chora Sfakion only when leaving the town: The bus to Rethymnon drove through some amazing montainslopes with seaview.

Here in Santorini we have now that much longed for room-with-a-view: The sea on both sides and a very very blue and white church right beside it.

The place is called Fotini Villa, and amazingly enough not at all too pricy.






Tomorrow we will go exploring outside Fira, the Santorini Capital. I will try to write again, maybe from Serifos, the island we are planning to visit next. Here a picture of a couple admiring, like us, the view...