The morning started with breakfast at one of the cafés in Chora Sfakion. Similar to our hotel experience, this was a much simpler breakfast of bread, jam, yogurt and a grilled cheese - not the life of luxury I've grown accustomed to on this trip. It was a beautiful, sunny morning and we enjoyed our breakfast at a table on the water. As we observed the other tourists in town, it was clear that this is very much a backpacker town. We made our way to the loca...

Today we woke up to a beautiful sunny day in Chania! The wind had died down and it was quite lovely. After breakfast we decided to check out the central market before heading out of town. We were surprised that the market was a bit more geared toward tourists than we had anticipated. There were still fish and meat stalls, but there were also stalls selling t-shirts, spices and other gear for the out of towners. We picked up a few things and enjoyed our walk aro...

Olive trees, dirt roads and lots of food were the themes today! Our morning started off early as we were the first to breakfast before our tour guide, Stelios, picked us up. Breakfast here was made to order and since we knew we had an early start, we ordered everything last night. It was delicious! This is such a neat hotel. Our tour guide met us in the lobby after breakfast and we headed downstairs. To our surprise, the car was parked right outside of the h...

When we woke up this morning it was sunny skies in Santorini! We enjoyed our last breakfast on the terrace and headed to the airport for our trip to Crete (via Athens). The Santorini airport is tiny and they have a lot of funny inefficiencies that we found odd. They scan people's boarding pass and let you onto a small sidewalk, but don't let you walk anywhere until you are basically like a group of cattle in a pen. Then, they open one of the chains and allow yo...

Refreshed and relaxed after our evening boat cruise yesterday, we got up a bit earlier to do some hiking before the expected afternoon rainstorms. We enjoyed another delicious breakfast before hopping in a taxi to the coastal town of Fira to begin the Caldera hike back to Oia where we're staying. We opted to start in Fira because it's downhill to Oia. What was not clear to me is how much we would go uphill before finally heading down to Oia! The trail st...