2014.08.10 \u2013 Ios – Santorinni (Greece)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We apprehended somewhat our day as after our breakfast at the hotel, we would be essentially homeless. Our ferry from Ios to Santorinni was only scheduled to sail after midnight. Initially, Jenny and Victoria were looking forward to all our free time to do some shopping at the many small boutiques they saw the previous day in Chora. Unfortunately, they returned, after 1.5 hours, disappointed by the limited offer. Later, we walked up the hill above Chora where we visited a small church. At the top, the wind was blowing heavily as I almost lost my hat. Back in the village, we moved from one park bench to another while the minutes passed by very slowly. The fact that it was Sunday seemed to make the village even more quiet. We were among the first customers of the restaurant which opened its doors at 7pm. The restaurant was lovely. We headed back to hotel to pick-up our luggage. Although we had planned to walk to the dock, our owner’s son insisted to drive us to the dock. Several people were waiting for the only two SeaJet ferries servicing Santorinni at 9:30pm and 23:30pm. While waiting, we learned that both ferries were late. We finally boarded our ferry at 1am – thankfully the crossing only took 30 mins. Needless to say that we arrived quite late at the Santorinni dock. Upon our arrival, we sought to take a taxi, but we were informed that they were all booked. We turned our hope to a shuttle bus operator which requested 25 euros to drive us to our hotel – Hotel Reina. The winding drive up the caldera from the dock in the middle of the night was awesome. Our hotel was located in Perissa, a small beach town, only 15-20 minutes away. Upon our arrival, we were confronted to a set of locked doors. We noticed a key had been taped to the front door, but we realized that this was not for our room. After knocking repeatedly at the reception door, in the hope of waking up someone from reception, we were thankful to see Jessica show up at the door. It was well past 2am when we managed to shower and catch up with Jessica’s day in Perissa. We were disappointed with the bathroom’s shower facility. A very very long and slow day, but we were glad to have finally met up with Jessica.<\/p>\n\n\n
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