Today we arrived bright and early on a little puddle jumper of a plane from Milos to Athens. Here we said goodbye to Lacey, and Jen and I were going to spend one more day in Athens just the two of us. We started out the day by taking the 95x bus from our hotel to downtown Athens. We had 3 main items on our list that we wanted to see before we departed in the morning. We started off in Plaka, which is a small part of town that has a lot of shops, restaurants, a...

Milos has many narrow, windy roads. They also do not mark their roads with any names. They are just roads... So you have to rely on your map and road signs that you hope are going the way that you are. We had heard that it was best to rent a car to see the many beaches and landscapes of the island, so we decided to do that for the other 2 days we were there. To my surprise, she assumed that we wanted a manual shift since that is what the whole island drives. I di...

Wow. Wow. Wow. This day surpassed all expectations of this trip and beyond. Milos has the most beautiful landscape I have ever laid eyes on. We hired a chipper skipper named Elias who took us out on a day sail of Milos's south side of the island. We found him on trip advisor and he had so many good reviews. We started off the day at 9:30 am by taking the dingy out to his sailboat in the harbor of Paliochori Bay. We were with about 10 other people, mostly from Eu...

We had a full day of travel before reaching Santorini at 10:30 pm. We slept in a little the next day and decided to rent a car to tour the island as recommended by Mario, our hotel clerk. He was absolutely fantastic and made us feel so welcome. Greeted us with wine and spent a good 30 minutes explaining the island to us and everything that we should see. We first toured the south side of the island and saw ancient ruins that dates back BC called Akkritiri. Ther...