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Santorini

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Our next port of call is Santorini, and we have booked the TUI trip of the Island. It was quite an early start as we had to get a tender from where the ship was moored to the new port, which took about 20 minutes and then on to our coach which was coach 8. We were on the same coach coach as Alf and Carol,  whilees and Julie were on coach 7. Our 1st stop of was the village of Pyrgos, which is only a tiny place but is the highest of the 14 settlements on the island. We were only there for about 20 minutes, just enough time  to walk up to it's highest point. We then drove to the other end of the island, and to the iconic village of Oia,which is renowned for it's picture postcard views. We got to spend about an hour and a half here and it certainly lived up to it's reputation. From there we headed off to Thira the capital of the island, and our quest for tat. Thira is perched above t...
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Souda for Chania

Today's port of call is Chania In Crete, which is one of the many Greek islands that we haven't visited before.  We decided to catch the local bus from the port of Souda, the port where we docked into Chania which was a 20 minute drive away, where we opted to have a look around some of the many shops, making our way down to the sea front and the lighthouse in the towns small harbour. On our way we calling in at many souvenir (tat) shops so Perdita could add to her ever growing collection of shot glasses and postcards. ( I am begining to think we are going to need a bigger display cupboard).  On our last cruise we met up with a couple (Les and Julie) from Hyde who we just seem to hit it off with, their sense of humour was exactly the same as ours and Les is just as much under the thumb as I am. We had already booked this cruise when we met them, and since then they have booked the same first cruise week with 2 more of thier friends Alf and Carol who we had meet when we met up w...
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