Overdue Santorini Pictures Part 2

Here are some more pictures. Enjoy! Perhaps you didn't find anything you like in the first slide show, so here's the next one. I promise to stop from here (for now or till my Wordless Wednesday post).

Overdue Santorini Pictures

Finally, my computer or slide.com is working normally. Here are some of the long overdue pictures of our last vacation in Santorini. Enjoy viewing it. Feel free to leave me a comment and tell me how nice the pictures are (ooops fishing for recognition!). I didn't have time to change my template this week because of so many activities. Hope to do it one of these days.

Wordless Wednesday

After about a long absence in WW, I'm back with beautiful pictures from Santorini.

Santorini Pictures

Behind us is the Caldera or the crater of the volcano which is now Santorini. The island Santorini is essentially what has been left from an enormous volcanic explosion which destroyed the earliest settlements and led to the creation of the current geological Caldera. Santorini belongs to the Cyclades, a group of islands in the Aegean Sea. However this crater is now just filled with water. The spectacular view along the Caldera is a must for all Santorini visitors. The hike to this small island Volcano Palea Kamini is a journey at your own risk!

Here for example is the village Oia, along the Caldera which is worth visiting. It attracts tourists for its magnificent sunset (as marketed by the tourist operators and travel books), which actually during our visit there wasn't that magnificent at all. The V. complained that he has seen better sunsets back in the Philippines, at my parents house. Sunset or not, the village is truly beautiful with its small alleys, the architecture (rebuilt after the 1956 earthquake) and the views along the Caldera.

After the sun sets, the village is illuminated from the many lights.

We're back!

Hello dear friends and fellow bloggers, we're back from our vacation! Braise yourself for a lot of pictures and stories from the island of Santorini, Greece. As you can see, I am browner than ever and The V. is well like himself - white. Milk and coffee that's what we are. We had a great time, enjoyed the sea, the great sceneries, the greek "santorini" cuisine and friendliness of the locals and most of all we enjoyed watching the scenes that bloody tourists like us do! The exciting and colorful mix of tourists from the corners of Europe and Asia was indeed a great form of entertainment for us. Unbelievable but great prejudices and stereotype roles are so evident in such touristic places. We can automatically scan the people without hearing their languages from which countries they come from!!! Among the majorities of nationalities were - Germans, Brits, French, Scandinavians, Americans, Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, Italians, Greeks, Spanish.

Almost everywhere in the island you can see such churches behind us. This has become the symbol of Santorini and even of Greece because not only is it strikingly beautiful but also because it represents the colors of thire flag, blue and white. I will be posting more detailed pictures later because these shots were just taken from my mobile phone. This phone has become handy because we don't need to ask every tourist (who is also very busy taking that aha shot) or a potential camera thief (haven't met one though thank God, otherwise you won't get to see any of our beautiful pictures. One of us just needs to stretch his/her arms and voila - there's two of us this time in a picture.