Mykonos to Santorini

Up this morning and breakfast as usual at the hotel, a beautiful morning in Mykonos. After breakfast it was time to get ready for a travel day, gather all the stuff, repack, return the scooter and make sure we have bus tickets to the ‘new port’ to catch the ferry to Santorini.

The last bus was scheduled to leave at 12:45 and the ferry scheduled to leave at 2:55, so there would be a little time to kill at the port. Didn’t seem to be a problem, but once at the port there was really nothing to do except people watch and wait for our “Flying Cat” to arrive so we could board.

Prior to leaving on the bus we shopped a couple of stores for last minute items, then boarded the bus for the port. Once there we got something to drink and settled in for to await the arrival of the ferry.

Around 2:30 in the distance you could see the fast moving ferry skimming across the water headed our way. The port was rather deserted, but then how many people normally travel from Mykonos to Santorini on a Wednesday morning…it’s for sure we had no idea.

We watched as the jet boat got closer and closer, just when we thought it should be turning in our direction to prepare to dock, it kept going straight. This WAS the port we arrived at on Friday…where could the boat be going. All I could think of was flash backs to Berlin in 2006!!! It was then we realized the boat was going to the downtown port and here we were at the ‘new port’. We asked a woman at the concession stand and she said that boat leaves from the ‘old port’ and it leaves in about 10 minutes. We scrambled around and finally hailed a taxi to speed us to the old port in hopes of catching our scheduled boat. When we got there it was a ‘sea’ of people waiting to board, so we pushed our way through them to the boarding platform and luckily made it in time to board for Santorini. After that it was pretty much an uneventful ride with stops at Pharros and Ilios.

Once we arrived at Santorini we were met by a towering wall of cliffs and rocks and a van to take us to our hotel. It was some ride up the steep hills and across the island to Hotel Afroessa. Once there and checked in it was some walk down steep steps to our room perched on the side of a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. After getting settled in the room we took off on foot looking for transportation. I had a car reserved for the next day, but nothing for tonight, so we walked…seemed like 5 miles…and finally found a scooter so we would be able to park close to the room.

We finally booked the scooter then set out to find a place to eat. We went to Simos for dinner…nice little local restaurant…had a nice dinner, then stopped by a store to pick up some snacks for the room and made it back to the room in one piece.

The internet seems not to be working…maybe because I’m barely hanging on to the side of this cliff, so will have to post this as a connection becomes available.

Oh…and a couple of “Smart” sightings today!!!!