After our hike, and surprise encounter, there was time for a last saunter through the village for souvenirs and THIS!
*RGBY = Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, the colours that summarize this post.
Greece: Santorini, Night
We saw the sun setting over Santorini, now, how about when night falls?
Greece: Santorini, Sunset
A sunset in Santorini is such a sight.
Greece: Santorini, Donkeys
"Donkeeeey" (said in the voice of Shrek).
There is an option to ride a donkey up from the water's edge to the top. Otherwise, you can still see them as they come through the shopping alleys, like so.
Greece: Santorini, Blue Domes
We spent a good deal of time trying to find the famed blue-domed church, you know, the one that appears on every single Greek postcard or Google search for Santorini. Our quest to find the exact blue dome left us still searching several churches later. After meeting other tourists also in search of it, we all decided that there must be a separate, private, rooftop view of that particular view of that particular blue-domed church. We'd continue our search later...
Greece: Santorini, Favourites
Allow me to share some of my favourite shots from Santorini.
May: Art to Inspiration
YES! It's time for another installment of Art to Inpsiration, folks!
This month, we're looking at Echoes of Fragrant Voice by Jo Howe
What an interesting piece of work! Abstract and minimalist, with just two shades, light and dark. Which is very much what I look for in subject matter, as a photographer. Lightness and darkness together creating shape, and you need one shape to highlight the other.
In breaking this beautiful work into basic shapes of light and dark, I was then inspired by my own minimalist photograph taken in Santorini. Light and dark working in harmony.
Past A2I posts: Feb, March, April
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Greece: Santorini, Green + Blue
How about throwing in some green in there for a change?
Greece: Santorini, Chair
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau (via)
Have a happy weekend no matter how many chairs you have.
Greece: Santorini, Boys
Here's looking at you, kids.
Greece: Santorini, A Gander
Literally within seconds of putting our luggage down at our hotel, we were off to explore the island that is Santorini. Here's what we found along the way.
Greece: Santorini, Sunny Villas
What's it like living in a cave, you ask?
I was dying to stay at Sunny Villas after my endless research on hotels in Santorini. The idea of staying in a CAVE was appealing. In real life, it was a difficult hotel to get to, but I imagine many of the hotels on Santorini to be the case, as the town is built on the side of a volcanic caldera, not to be confused with a crater. And it's STEEP, y'all! Hotel Sunny Villas had incredible caldera and sunset views from the terrace, but the actual cave-like habitat was rather claustophobic, for us. Still, it was incredible to be situated right in front of the Skaros rock, which used to be a medieval fortress, that we hiked on the last day of our trip (more on that later). For now, this.
Greece: Mykonos, Hotel St. John
Only the best. hotel. ever.
Greece: Athens: Fallen
I don't remember the name of this particular historic site, but it was, as all the other ancient architecture in Athens, magnificent. One of the pillars lay there, fallen, in a domino effect, and we wondered when and why it had fallen. But like a lot of ancient history, it's shrouded in mystery.
Dusk was falling, and the light was just perfect for this last day in Athens. Tomorrow, off to Mykonos!
