We started to get rain last night and we woke up to our first rainy day of the trip this morning! It looks like it was settled in for a while so we just hung out at our place until early afternoon and hoped for a break in the weather. Around 3:15 the clouds broke and we decided to hop on the quad and drive to Halki and then on to Filoti which is in the hilly and mountainous center part of Naxos island. These towns were pretty quiet and empty and it looked like mo...

We decided we wanted to explore more of the beautiful west coast beaches of Naxos, so we rented a 150cc 2 seater quad for the next 2 days and headed south down the west coast! We went past Plaka where we were yesterday and went down another 4km or so and stopped briefly at Mikri Vigla beach. Just like Plaka it is a beautiful beach! We continued further on and stopped at the north end of Cape Agali on the southern end of Kastraki beach. We had a quick walk on the ...

After a nice cooked breakfast in our hotel room to kick off the morning, we enjoyed a dip in the pool and relaxed before catching a bus down the west coast to a beach called plaka. The beaches are beautiful all along the west coast of Naxos and are by far the nicest ones we have seen on the trip so far!! Once you arrive to Plaka, you are overcome with the beauty of the clear turquoise waters and the golden sandy beaches that stretch on for km's! (Myles and Nina, ...

Today is a travel day and we are taking the ferry from Santorini to Naxos! We enjoyed a good breakfast at our hotel on the coolest morning we have had yet on our trip. As our ferry was bit leaving until 3:30, we spent the late morning and early afternoon walking around the Fira town and soaking in the last bit of the view from up top the Caldera! Finally it was time to leave and our generous and kind hosts dropped us off at the port to catch the ferry. After fina...

It is our final full day in Santorini and we started it off with a nice full and hearty breakfast at mamas house! (Where we ate dinner on our first night here). We then hopped on a bus to Kamari beach on the east coast again and where we got on a connecting bus to go up to ancient Thira. Ancient Thira is a old settlemt initially founded by the Dorian's in 9th cent BC and then later taken over by the Spartans and then finally the Romans in the 1st cent AD. The rom...