Our day started with a lazy morning checking out of our room at 11am and lounging by the pool until 2pm where we got a bus to the "new port" to catch our high speed catamaran. The "new port" is so new it's construction still isn't finished! At the new port, the sea marshall had an important job keeping all the tourists away from any bits of shade, so we sweltered in the heat for a while waiting for the catamaran to arrive. After boarding with hundreds of other travelers we relaxed with a beer, as we stopped first at Paros and then Ios. After the 2.5 hour trip we arrived at Santorini, gazing at the lunar landscape of layered, weathered cliffs as we entered the port. We disembarked and waited for our hotel transfer to arrive. We waited, and waited some more before calling the hotel. We think they forgot about us, as they said it will be there in 10mins time. So we waited, and waited, and waited, and 30mins later we had our hotel transfer.
Our hotel is actually a set of villas which are perched on the Caldera (inner rim of an ancient volcano crater) cliff face, facing out to the ocean filled center of the crater, and some other small islands and the rim on the opposite side. It is truly a spectacular view. Our room resembles a cave, the walls are curved, and the ceilings low. There is even a smaller cave in the bedroom which Mick refers to as our "pizza oven", probably a cupboard of some kind.
We were going to walk into town (1km away) but Mick was very hungry, bordering on getting "hungry and angry" so we stopped at one of the closest restaurants to our villa. We watched the sunset and had a nice meal and retired for the night. It was an exhausting day, even though we didn't do anything!
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