LAST NIGHT ON THE ISLAND The sun has set on our last full day in the amazing Santorini. Tomorrow (Saturday) we will be heading back to Athens for one night. We did a bit more wandering today, cruising through the parts of Fira town that we didn't see yesterday. We also tried some new restaurants, which were nice, particularly the place we went to for dinner - Lithos - which had a great view of the water and the sunset. We have decided that we have to come back...

WELCOME TO PARADISE What a difference 12-13 hours of sleep makes. We got up today at about 11am and had a wander through a lot of the local touristy shops and restaurants in Fira town. There's heaps of cool little shops down the cobblestone (or randomly placed rock) alleyways and there's restaurants on the cliff face with epic views. I don't think people even care if the food is any good, they just wanna eat somewhere with the greatest ocean views on the planet...

JET LAG: PART II Santorini. Finally, we find ourselves in the Greek islands. We've earned this. After 18 days of full-on activities & long coach rides throughout western Europe we are finally able to throw out the anchor for a few nights. Granted, we didn't really get any sleep last night after getting the red eye flight from London to Athens and then waiting around for 6 hours for our connecting flight (and having a sleep in the Athens Airport McCafe at abo...