I am in Lisbon now, after my 7th flight of the trip! There is free wireless at the hotel, so here are some photos I took in Santorini, Greece. In a few words -- I had a really good time. Good = excellent conference, accommodation, food, time alone. Eggplant eggplant eggplant eggplant. Chickpeas chickpeas. I have a lot to say but getting sleepy. Shall go and dream of the aubergines...
First up, Santorini. Maybe tomorrow if I feel like it I will upload Athens photos. Should have taken a photo of the food that I ate leh, but of course when I saw the food.... who can remember to take photo??!!
Sunset in Santorini. I took this from the balcony at the Nomikos conference center. We always had the receptions and coffee breaks there. Haha during the presentations, they had to draw the blinds because they said the view was too distracting.
This was also taken from the conference center balcony. Photo of the Caldera, the remains of the volcano that blew up.
The town of Fira. At the bottom of this page you will see the church that appears at the top of this photo. Fira was quite nice to stroll through. But rather touristy. I was staying about 15 min walk from Fira, in an area called Firostefani, which I felt was much more peaceful and pretty. Most of the food and shops are in Fira though.
Donkeys walking up the steps from the Old Port of Fira to the town. I think the donkeys quite poor thing, that's all they do the whole day, walk up and walk down carrying humans. The donkeys (or mules) are quite smelly. And they shit all over the steps!!
I thought this was quite a cool photo because it is taken of a tunnel that leads from the hotel pool to my room. The hotel was called Santorini Palace. And yes it was quite a palace.
My room. One person occupy 2 beds. Shiok ah. Can roll and roll and roll. Can use many pillows. Can anyhow throw clothes around. Hahahaha
This is the church. I thought the architecture was nice, and it looked great against the cloudless sky. Which reminds me... when I kept looking at the sky, I thought of the blue color -- cobalt blue, in the color pencil box. The one where the color pencils have 2 colors, one on each end. Cobalt blue.
Close up shot of Fira. As you can see, there are many cafes and restaurants. All with a view.
We were treated to a wine-tasting session at this winery. There are 3 main types of wines from Santorini. They were all really good. I seldom say wine tastes good, so these must have been really quite good. The dessert wine Vinsanto especially. Vinsanto is a sun-dried wine, super duper sweet. I'd liken it to something like Ribena liqour. Really very shiok. Darn. I should have bought a bottle at the airport!!!! Now while blogging about it I keep thinking about it. We had it once at the winery, then at the end of dinner they served us the wine again in adorable little glasses. Ah. Dang.
Ok Sleepy Deepee Doo.
First up, Santorini. Maybe tomorrow if I feel like it I will upload Athens photos. Should have taken a photo of the food that I ate leh, but of course when I saw the food.... who can remember to take photo??!!
Sunset in Santorini. I took this from the balcony at the Nomikos conference center. We always had the receptions and coffee breaks there. Haha during the presentations, they had to draw the blinds because they said the view was too distracting. 
This was also taken from the conference center balcony. Photo of the Caldera, the remains of the volcano that blew up.
The town of Fira. At the bottom of this page you will see the church that appears at the top of this photo. Fira was quite nice to stroll through. But rather touristy. I was staying about 15 min walk from Fira, in an area called Firostefani, which I felt was much more peaceful and pretty. Most of the food and shops are in Fira though.
Donkeys walking up the steps from the Old Port of Fira to the town. I think the donkeys quite poor thing, that's all they do the whole day, walk up and walk down carrying humans. The donkeys (or mules) are quite smelly. And they shit all over the steps!!
I thought this was quite a cool photo because it is taken of a tunnel that leads from the hotel pool to my room. The hotel was called Santorini Palace. And yes it was quite a palace.
My room. One person occupy 2 beds. Shiok ah. Can roll and roll and roll. Can use many pillows. Can anyhow throw clothes around. Hahahaha
This is the church. I thought the architecture was nice, and it looked great against the cloudless sky. Which reminds me... when I kept looking at the sky, I thought of the blue color -- cobalt blue, in the color pencil box. The one where the color pencils have 2 colors, one on each end. Cobalt blue.
Close up shot of Fira. As you can see, there are many cafes and restaurants. All with a view.
We were treated to a wine-tasting session at this winery. There are 3 main types of wines from Santorini. They were all really good. I seldom say wine tastes good, so these must have been really quite good. The dessert wine Vinsanto especially. Vinsanto is a sun-dried wine, super duper sweet. I'd liken it to something like Ribena liqour. Really very shiok. Darn. I should have bought a bottle at the airport!!!! Now while blogging about it I keep thinking about it. We had it once at the winery, then at the end of dinner they served us the wine again in adorable little glasses. Ah. Dang.
Ok Sleepy Deepee Doo.
2 Comments:
Beautiful pics. Wish I can visit Greece one day. Love the church's unique architecture. You are blessed to be there!
Hi Jasmine , lovely place...will put it into my wish to go places...Do catch up when back in Singapore...God bless/Cynthia
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