Flight into Santorini, Greece

Miles: 2.9 Steps: 6919
Flights stairs: 5

We took off from Athens this evening and flew to the small Greek island of Santorini!! We came in at sunset so only got pics from the air.

Boarding the plane was interesting. They loaded us all into three buses and then drove us quite a ways out away from the airport. The plane was waiting for us out there but was still getting ready - so they held us on these hot buses for a bit. A lot of airports in Europe seem to operate this way.

I’ve never flown onto a small island before - kind of freaky. We came SO low to the water as we approached, as the runway was right at the edge of the land — all we saw was water that felt like it was just 10 feet below US, and then boom, there was the land and we were on it. Very odd feeling.

Santorini is literally a city built on the edge of a active, yet dormant volcano. The whole city IS the rim of the caldera of the volcano. Will be fun to see it in daylight tomorrow.Read more