I had always wanted to go and it was great. I'd arranged to meet with my friends Kelly and Jennifer from Boston in Athens. In the end, they each brought a friend along so we were a group of 5.
In Athens we of course went to the Acropolis, saw the Parthnon...
(Me, Jen, Parthenon)
Curious thing about Athens... they say its supposed to be one of the dirtiest cities in the world but I didn't find it to be all that dirty. What did surprise me was the large number of BIG stray dogs. They were everywhere!
From Athens we headed to the first of our town island stops, Mykonos. Unfortunately, we only had one day there and it rained the whole time! We made our own fun of course, and waited out for breaks in the rain in a bar where we could see the ocean drinking Uzo (the typical Greek liquor. you dilute it with water and ice it kind of tastes like black liquorish, ew) We did manage to walk around a bit between showers... the town is really beautiful, all of the houses are painted white and the doors are all different colors!
Windmills on Mykonos... and rain clouds :(
The picture on all the Mykonos postcards
Then we headed to Santorini! When we found that it was still raining there, we tried to make the best for it and go for a walk. This turned out to NOT be the best idea, we got caught in a downpour and had to take refuge...
But the next day it cleared up a little and we hiked around approximately a fourth of the perimiter of the island, from Fira to Oia, which is famous for its sunsets.
The hike was so beautiful!
Oia is in sight!
And Finally, the sunset!
Our last day in Santorini the sun finally came out! SO we made the most of it and rented ATVs to ride around the whole island
And climbed a mountain
Then we headed back to Athens! Great week with a great group of ladies!
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