KC welcomes us in style

A little late posting this, but we are home. Winter sucks.

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The sun sets on our trip

The central island is a volcano which we hiked up the day before. All
of Santorini was formed by the volcano, hence the ring shape of the
island, the black sand beaches, and the (luke warm) hot springs that
we swam in.

From here, it was a bus to an overnight ferry to Athens. Then some
hiking to kill the day. Then a flight to London and we just spent the
night at Heathrow. Actually not as bad as it sounds. The plan is to
see some sights before our afternoon flight to Chicago.

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Finally, the beach!

We made it to a (empty -- did i mention that people dont go to greece
in the winter?) black sand beach on our last day. While the
temperature wasn't really inviting us to take a dip, we got in some
good time on the sand. I even managed a sunburn -- not hard for me.

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Santorini is just like the postcard

Greek island with little white buildings on the side of the hill and
some blue roofs. And that's pretty much the whole town and ALL the
towns on the island. Of course 80% of the island was closed for
winter, but it made for a very quiet and relaxing last stop.

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Cretan food

So since we are in a large island in the Mediterranean, we thought
seafood was a necessary part of our diet. We found a decent
restaurant and took a look at the menu. There was basic stuff like
fish spaghetti, shrimp and mussells. But we thought, let's go crazy,
we're in Crete. So we ordered octopus (previous post) and something
called "Atherian". I figured it must be some kind of fish and I'd get
a nice filet of something I'd never tried. Not quite. It was fish,
all right, but not as delectable-looking as I'd hoped. I'm still not
sure how you are supposed to eat them but we picked most of them apart
and they weren't terrible. I ate a couple whole--I don't recommend it.

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Octopus grilled over charcoal

See next chronological post.

Just kinda funny

The Minoans loved them some longhorns.

--Knossos, Crete