A better side of Greece

Well Greece just kept getting worse and worse each day. We finally got out on Monday night, but unfortunately we slept through our stop which was at 630 am and ended up on the island of Ios. We wanted to be on Santorini but had planned on going to another island at some point, so here was our point. We found a cheap campground right on the biggest party beach of the island, and in case you don't know, Ios is THE PARTY PLACE IN GREECE.... Which sometimes we like but really we wanted our Greece trip to be relaxing on the beach and checking out cool towns, not really feeling the partying, but we were going to rally, or so we thought. After the longest game of chess, turns out I take an hour to play one game (always thinking) and a few other cranky cranky hours Tony and I looked at each other and knew we wanted no more of this island. It wasn't what we had signed up for!

So we bought another boat ticket and headed to Santorini. The boat ride set us right, Tony slept for two hours and I hung out on the top deck watching the islands and waves, sooo cool. The last two hours on the boat we sat watching the sunset eating a delicious mango, life was good again.

We spent the past two days exploring this island and it's little towns. We stayed in a rad hostel for 5 euros each a night, and one night they screwed us with only one bed so we made them charge us for only one person, worked out well. We also rented a scooter for the two days, 12 euros. Tony had a slight learning curve, I learned how to grip to him quite well. We somehow lucked out with the most powerful scooter ever!!! NOT. IT was sooo horrible. Every hill we went up we were concerned about getting to the top, multiple times we didn't and I had to hop off while Tony went he rest of the way, funny looks from the other scooters going by. But it was a joyous occasion none the less. PS. of course it was a Peugot, just one that couldn't go without us singing "Just Keep Swimming..."

Today I had the luck of getting the donkey like our scooter. The donkeys are a big thing here and quite entertaining. You can ride them down, take a cable car down or walk the long winding steps down to the port area and ride them back up. WE of course walked down and paid to ride back up, only five euros each. Well Tony's took right off, without me! I was all alone majority of the ride up, and twice some lady had to grab his ropes and pull my donkey to get going again, he would stop when he felt like it. HE also loved the sides of the walls. Anyways, point is it was a lot of fun but quite silly. WE had a blast the past two days.

The sunsets are supposedly the best in the world, and they are quite beautiful. We watched from the lighthouse on one side of the island the first night and then from Oia (the most popular sunset watching spot in the world) tonight. It was better at Oia but TONS of toursists who clapped at the end of the setting.

The beaches are quite interesting here too. A volcano erupted in 1600 BC so they have black and red sand beaches from the ash of the volcano. Santorini really has been a fun place. And they have bomb ass pitas, yum! Well off to Hungary