Greetings from the Greek Isles

Colin's Blog Entry

Howdy Folks!

This is Colin.

I'd like to tell you about what we did

Day 1: We went to our hotel, it had a restaurant and a swimming pool. It was cool. One of the restaurant workers's son Dimitiris, a common name in Greece, grabbed toy trucks and threw them in to the swimming pool. We met a kid from Canada. His name was Peter.

Day 2: We went into town called Fira we saw small cable cars and people on donkeys. We also went swimming at the Black Sand Beach. Peter showed us fish.

Day 3: We went to the Red Sand Beach. I ran ahead onto the beach before anyone else got their except for Madeleine who was chasing after me. We met Peter and went out looking for fish.

Day 4: We went to a boring museum then we took the ferry boat to Naxos. In the ferry line Dad met someone he knew.

Day 5: We drove up the hills of Naxos . I led Madeleine down these stairs in the mountains. On the way up I was out of breath. Then we went to the beach. Dad thought we didn't need snorkels because we had goggles. I got out really early because there were no fish or waves and it was boring.

Day 6: In the middle of the night I woke up from my horrible nightmare and it was 5 am in the night. We went back into Naxos town and walked around and had lunch, of course, I had my pizza Margherita. Then we went to a new beach and saw lots of huge fish. One was as big as my whole hand! On our way back we got Magnums - ice cream cones with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup. When we got back to our hotel we ran into two cats. At night while we were writing in our journals we spotted a cat outside. We went out and petted it and fed it tuna - then the other cat came along and we did the same. Then, while we were inside, a new cat came along but we stayed inside and they stayed on our porch.

Greetings from Colin. I hope you have enjoyed my blog and tomorrow we will be in Athens.

Madeleine's comments.

Santorini:

The first thing I would like to make clear is that the whole island of Santorini is an active volcano and that we rode a boat into its crater. From Fira we got some amazing views of Santorini ( and some donkeys).The buildings in Greece are really all white. The museum was not boring - it was filled with artifacts from the last time Santorini erupted when the Minoans were still powerful. The beaches were actually black and red with fish swimming in the water which was pretty amazing. We have been trying Greek cuisine especially Spanakopita.

Naxos:

Our first day here we drove to a cute little mountain town called Apernathos. All the streets and sidewalks were made of marble. Those "steps" that Colin and I went down were actually a long trail on which Colin made us go way farther than we should have. We spent the rest of the day on the beach. At first we did think that the beach was boring, but today we found a spot filled with fish. We also explored Naxos town and got to look at an old Venetian castle. We got to see this giant arch to an ancient Greek temple (only the arch and floor are left), and the remains of a temple to Dionysus.

That's all for now.