Day 9 Santorini

A wonderful morning spent exploring the beautiful area of Santorini- Fira- where we are staying. Again a mixture of tourist shops, narrow paths, beautiful churches and gorgeous scenery. We stopped for another nice drink and tapas before returning to the hotel for a swim and a rest. We met our wine tour driver at 4pm after a minor misunderstanding about pick up point. We headed out and down to the coast with our lovely host Elena and 5 others. The vineyard was nothing like N Z vineyards as the grapes grow organically on the dry ground with the vine trained into a basket shape. She explained the wine making process of the area before taking us to three very different vineyards where we also ate delicious snacks. The final one was the largest in Santorini and we were able to view the incredibly sunset from there. By then we all had got to know each other quite well and it really was lots of fun. We were dropped back at the hotel to view the sunset scenery one last time as we leave for Athens on the morning.Read more