What an action packed day we had! After a quick breakfast in the morning in our room, we headed down the road to each rent a 125cc Quad for the day to cruise around and explore the island! Our first stop was to drive all the way down to Akrotiri which is on the very most southern part of Santorini. This place is very unique and special as it is a site of an ancient Minoan city which was wiped out and buried by a massive volcanic eruption in 1600BC which covered t...

Santorini Boat Trip day. Today has been a great day, to visit Santorini as a geologist... well to put it simply, this place is geological porn. We sorted tickets with the reception of the hotel we are staying at (best way to do it), for a "boat trip with hot spring visit", and quickly made our way to the Gondola to get down to the Old Fira Port to board our boat for the day. The scenery from the Gondola alone was unreal. Once onboard we were informed of our da...

We hopped on to the ferry in the morning from Iraklio and took the 2 hour ride to Santorini and arrived just before noon. As you approach the calderra from the boat, it is completely surreal being surrounded by massive protruding volcanic rock out of the sea and when you see the massive vertical western face of Santorini it truly is a 'wow' moment! We got picked up by the shuttle bus with our hotel and made the swift and zigg zaggy switch back assent to the top o...

We started our day in the morning by heading down to the bus station to catch the bus to the Palace of Knossos. It is definitely worth the visit and something everyone has to do when they go to Crete! Its hard to imagine that they were able to build an elaborate and complex palace in 1900BC. What is mostly left now are ruins,walls and rock that have eroded away (except for a few pillars in the north entrance, the throne room and other areas that were restored in ...

Today's blog will be short and sweet. This morning our host from Aloe Apartments kindly dropped us off at the Rethymno bus station and wished us well on our adventure. After about an hour and a half long bus ride we hit the coast to see the metropolitan (in Greek Island terms) of Iraklio... A sea of Gypsum washed houses as far as we could see. Once we arrived we made our first stop at the Iraklio Archealogical Muesum, all I can say is eat your heart out 6th f...