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Economy in islands

Greece is famous for its financial collapse and caused a lot of problems for the world economy. One time the demonstrations of people were broadcast nearly everyday. But here in Santorini or…

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Black sand beach

In the tour in Santorini, the time on the beach was included. The beach was called Perivolos with black sand. Santorini is an island made by the eruption of a volcano, so…

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Civilised ruin

According to the itinerary of the tour we joined in Santorini, the next visit was Akrotiri ruin. I was not very happy to walk around the ruin under the flaming sun, but…

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Megalochori

This is another village in Santorini we visited with the tour. It is already recorded in the 17th century document. We were taken to a souvenir shop in a traditional semi-circular no-window…

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The monastery

The highest point of Santorini is 567m. On top of this hill there is the Profitis Ilias Monastery built in 1712. They said there was no local bus service here, so we…

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Riding a donkey

The holiday in Greece this time was full of interesting events, but the best was this, riding a donkey. After seeing the sunset from the Santorini sight seeing boat, naturally it got…

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The sunset from the boat

 The climax of the boat journey around Santorini was again the sunset. We looked up at he Oia town being dyed salmon pink, where we had seen the sunset the day before, and…

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The meal on board

Our Santorini sight seeing boat stopped at another place for us to swim after the hot spring, but it was already late in the afternoon and water looked cold, so I just…

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Disappointing hot spring

 The thing I was looking forward to during the sight seeing sailing around Santorini was the hot spring which is supposed to appear around a small island of Palia Kamani.You can swim there….