A relaxing day today, but we folded to the kids demands to do the donkeys again. Amusingly, I must look like a Greek local now, and the donkey handler gave me the stick, taught me the Greek word for "hurry up" and let me lead six donkeys up. Living is cheap here, even in touristy santorini, huge salad rolls, big enough for two people are $2.50, mains in a restaurant are generally under $10 (if you don't eat where there is a view), and for a cheap dinner, a huge...

Today we hired a little buzzbox to do a colour-coded beach tour. Black beach white beach and red beach. I have invented a game with the kids, called "mimic the Japanese tourist pose in the background of their photo" it's great fun!.

Well, we have been away long enough that we walk on the right side of the footpath, and the kids are saying all their basic words in French. Bonjour, oui, merci. They have even adapted their French now we are in Greece, "Greek oui. Greek merci". Mental note, buy a Greek phrasebook. Today we wandered down to the old port and did a boat trip to the mouth of the volcano and the hotsprings. We have renamed them the brown lukewarm springs. The kids then took the don...

After a small unscheduled "Greek adventure" yesterday, where Aegean airlines had us landing in Athens at 7pm but catching the next flight at 6.15pm after changing the flight time. They put us up in a hotel as all taxis and buses were on strike (the hotel was like a Greek weekend at bernies) Anyway today we flew into santorini 14 later than planned ..... Wow, Greece you are forgiven.