{"id":1518,"date":"2023-09-28T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2023-09-30T09:16:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T16:16:55","slug":"santorini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/2023\/09\/santorini\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece 2023 – Santorini"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Map<\/a> After visiting friends in Thessaloniki for a couple days, we hopped a short flight to the island of Santorini.\u00a0 We stayed in Fira, a small town on a ridge overlooking the Caldera.<\/p>\n

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Fira<\/h2>\n
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A white door against the blue sea of the Caldera and the gray sky.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Looking down from Fira at a cruise ship anchored in the Caldera.<\/p>\n

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Cruise ship passengers are dropped off at a small ferry terminal where they can hike up the steep path shown here which zig-zags up the hill, ride a mule up the steep path, or ride a cable car up to Fira<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our first morning in Fira, I got up early and went for a walk through the town before the shops opened and the tourists descended on the town. I heard a clattering of small bells, looked around the corner, and it was one of the mule drivers walking his mules through the village on the way down to the small ferry terminal where the cruise ship passengers are dropped off.<\/p>\n