Santorini

Our last stop in Greece: Santorini.

All five of us (Yes, Will gets a vote!) agreed Santorini was our favorite island of the entire trip. Santorni must be synonymous with beautiful, breath-taking, absolutely surreal, and stairs. Its antonyms are stroller and babies, but we didn't let that stop us!

For those of you who don't know, Santorini is a volcanic island. A large eruption blew out two of its sides allowing the ocean to fill the center, thus becoming a caldera. It consists of several towns built into sheer cliff sides. Many of the villas (including ours) are literally cave houses, carved into the mountain side. But man, let me tell ya, the villas's balconies and views are pretty amazing!

Oia, where we stayed

The view from our patio, looking into the center of the caldera.
Beauty like this makes you forget the 119 steps it took to get to our villa.

A neighboring patio

Blue, blue water

The Zabel 5 out and about. Wandering the streets of the town felt a smidge like Venice where everything is so close-quartered, but the overall Greek-island feeling pervades!

We took a "walk" to a recommended fish restaurant for lunch. It was over 250 steps down to the harbor. You can see Jeff shading Will in the Ergo and Charley carting our umbrella stroller back up the stairs. Quite a trek, but totally worth it!

Does it get any prettier?

Awwwwwhhhh . . . .

I added this to the list of places Jeff and I have to come back to again. Maybe once our finances free up in say, 22 years . . . :)