{"id":803,"date":"2016-10-28T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T21:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2016-11-04T21:38:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T03:38:43","slug":"santorini-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Santorini, Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santorini is in the shape of a big C, surrounding the caldera which is the active volcano area. \u00a0Most of the towns and villages are situated on the top of the island. \u00a0 \u00a0The island is very touristy and it is easy to see why. \u00a0It is entirely scenic. \u00a0There are no bad views here. \u00a0With multicolored cliffs soaring over 1000 feet from the sea-drowned caldera, it rests in the middle of the indigo Aegean sea. \u00a0It appears like a giant slab of layered cake.<\/p>\n

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View of some of the islands surrounding Santorini. \u00a0Here I was able to swim in the ocean where there are thermals created by the geological activity in the caldera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Santorini in the distance. What could be at first mistaken for snow at the top of Santorini is the village of Finikia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Athinios Port and the village of Megalohon at the top. \u00a0This is where we moored for the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View of the caldera from atop of Santorini. \u00a0You can’t miss all the cruise ships in the water below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View of the caldera from Nea Kameni. \u00a0The hike up this volcanic crater was great.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I had lunch and some Greek beers here. \u00a0The beers were necessary in order to counter my slight dizziness from the height and the sheer drop of the cliffside. \u00a0The food was great but this place is not for anyone with acrophobia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is home to a man who as local folklore has it, lost his young lover and retreated from the world to live here on this tiny island near Santorini. \u00a0He has been here for some 20 years. \u00a0I’m sure this place is very reasonable. \u00a0Check out the rug on his back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My departure from this picturesque little Greek Island. \u00a0One negative to this island is that unless one travels by cruise ship, it is difficult to get here. \u00a0I was fortunate to have my Greek friend Maarku who resides on his comfortable yacht with me, so getting here was easy, not to mention the party we had along the way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Please check in for my next island stop with Maarku, the island of Monemvasia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santorini is in the shape of a big C, surrounding the caldera which is the active volcano area. \u00a0Most of the towns and villages are situated on the top of the island. \u00a0 \u00a0The island is very touristy and it is easy to see why. \u00a0It is entirely scenic. \u00a0There are no bad views here. … Continue reading Santorini, Greece<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthlylocomotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}