Travel Woes (nearly) and Beautiful Weather

I'm coming to you live from the island of Santorini, where it is now 11:21 pm and it is a comfortable 20 degrees (give or take).

Some news on my travels. We left Montreal late on our Air Canada flight - figures ;-), arrived in Frankfurt to find our transfer to Athens was oversold and a flight attendant was sick and four passengers were kicked off the plane, along with their luggage. Needless to say, we left Frankfurt 1 hour late. We then bee-lined across Athens to the port of piraeus, sprinted with our 60 L bags on our backs to the "superjet" to take us to Santorini. Some speedboat - it took longer than the flight across the Atlantic!!!!

First impressions of Greece: lots of construction, but all very historic in style; very little obvious vegetation, except for the clearly artificially planted palm trees, and narrow streets. We'll see what more Athens has to offer tomorrow.

We were greeted by the extremely friendly, George (go figure), when arrived at Fira, the capital city of Santorini. We are staying at his guest house, which might as well be a hotel - it's really nice, and the location is perfect. I had a good sleep last night, while Jeff suffered through my snoring.

Today, Jeff and I took a bus to Pyrgos, walked up to the monastery on top of the hill and snapped some great pictures of the island (to be posted when I have more time...11 min left at the internet cafe...). Then, we walked to the Santo Winery and got drunk at noon...I jest...no seriously. Jeff had to carry me out! ;-) Then, we went down to the black-sanded beach of Perissa, so lot's of beautiful foreign women and swam in the cool, clear waters of the Aegean. I also napped and got random sunburns in unusual places.

Finally, we took the bus to Ia, famous for the views of the sunset, which were absolutely perfect in the cloudless sky. It was very romantic - why isn't Jeff a beautiful Greek woman????

That's all for now. I'll try to check in again from Athens.