The Farr Family Big Fat Greek Vacation Santorini July 9th - July 14th

July 10th

We arrived into Santorini yesterday.  After a hair raising drive to find the villa we arrived.  We were greeted by the owners and given the 5 cent tour and the keys.  The view was beautiful....however, the villa its self was not the Luxury Villa we had expected.  It was old and not well kept.  Ok moving on... Today we decided to do some driving around.  We stopped at a lovely beach got a lounger and spent sometime at Perissa Beach.  The beach loungers are all owned by the restaurants across the street.  We paid $100 for a really nice lounger and were given a lovely fruit tray, Champaign and some sushi.  We ordered lunch and enjoyed the time spent there.  

July 11th

Today we spent the morning in the pool as this afternoon we were leaving on a sunset boat tour.  We had a driver take us to the harbor where we met our crew and our boat.  It was a great tour and it was a great perspective to see the island.  It was nice to be looking up at the island.  The crew served us a wonderful lunch, we toured beaches and the kids got to do some swimming and jumping off the boat.  The cruise ended with a beautiful sunset.  Later that night we had dinner at a seafood place in Amoudi Bay.  

July 12th

Today we had a guided tour of Akrotiri and Oia. 

July 13th 

Today was our last full day in Santorini and since this is a pretty busy place and lots of tourists I just wanted to spend a quiet day at the beach.  Paul and the kids toured Ancient Thira in the morning and then in the afternoon we went to Kamari Beach.  We again rented chairs and had a nice lunch, the kids walked around a bit and shopped.  

July 14th

Today we flew to back to Athens as we needed to catch our flight out to Newark in the morning.  I am always leery of airport hotels but THIS ONE WAS AWESOME!!!!! Awesome beds really nice hotel!!! much appreciated after the not so wonderful accommodations we had in Santorini.  Noah and I used the pool, we had a nice dinner and were well rested for our flight the next day.  

Greece was amazing!!! Really enjoyed Athens and Crete....Santorini however, beautiful was crazy busy, lots of people, buses and touristy.