{"id":1929,"date":"2014-07-11T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2014-07-11T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:08:04","slug":"was-santorini-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"Was Santorini Atlantis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really, if you want to know the answer to that you had better check with Wiki Answers or King Minos. \u00a0What I do know is that after sailing to 20 Greek Islands, Santorini captivated\u00a0us. The grandiose scale of island as well as the\u00a0striking\u00a0colours\u00a0ranging from obsidian black to red earth to\u00a0creamy white tufa.<\/p>\n

We discovered that it is a very big island, with looming volcanic cliffs. There is no real anchoring for a small yacht like ours. \u00a0We only saw commercial ships, gulets and cruise liners.\u00a0The four of us took a ferry, from Naxos leaving Mercier under the watchful eye of Harbourmaster Nikos.<\/p>\n

The ferry sailed straight into the caldera. \u00a0We were literally in the volcano, looking up at the cliffs. \u00a0The ferry docked and we went straight onto a bus. \u00a0We were driven up steep, switch back roads a kilometer straight up to Oia.<\/p>\n

\"Oia\"<\/a>
Oia looking out over the Caldera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The lovely village of Oia, was our destination, at the northern tip of the island. \u00a0This be the home of vampires of Santorini, not to mention the pirates.. Not surprising when you remember the tortuous road up the hill and the sheers cliffs.<\/p>\n

\"James<\/a>
James and Davo – our intrepid explorers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Later on we were taken to Fira, the Chora or capital of Santorini. \u00a0Here you see something scarier than vampires and that is gross insensitive tourism. \u00a0If you are interested in coming to Santorini, come outside \u00a0of the months of \u00a0July or August. \u00a0Don’t come for a day trip, stay a few days so that you can enjoy the views, black sand beaches and the sunsets. We escaped to a wonderful cliffside restaurant for moussaka, greek salad and a bit of tzatziki\u00a0.<\/p>\n

\"Boats<\/a>
Boats and ships<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Our<\/a>
Our escape\u00a0in Fira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We loved Santorini, but after a day trip it is still on our bucket list, another time\u00a0for several days.<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a>
Black Volcanic beaches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Really, if you want to know the answer to that you had better check with Wiki Answers or King Minos. \u00a0What I do know is that after sailing to 20 Greek Islands, Santorini captivated\u00a0us. The grandiose scale of island as well as the\u00a0striking\u00a0colours\u00a0ranging from obsidian black to red earth to\u00a0creamy white tufa. We discovered that … Continue reading Was Santorini Atlantis?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-v7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}