View of Aegiali Olmos (Aegiali
Bay) from our hotel room
The little port of Aegiali,
where we arrived by ferry from Athens at 6 a.m.,
with characteristic lower
and upper towns
The beach at Aegiali, with
the village of Tholaria on the hillside in the background
| When in Tholaria, the place to be is the restaurant Panorama. The old man here is a master storyteller. We were the only people there who didn't speak Greek, so I can't tell you what his stories were about, but they were brilliantly set up and the crowd erupted into hysterics at every punchline. He's also the waiter, though, so be prepared to sit a spell if he's in the middle of a good one! |
Our hotel, the Aegialis,
as seen from the pier at Aegiali
Folks gather in the square
to chat.
(These must be tourists: if
they were Greeks
they'd have a cell phone in
one hand and a cigarette in the other.)
Swimmers at Aegiali, lower
town in the background
(this is the busiest beach
on the island!)
The mountainside village of
Langada as seen from our hotel
Getting close to Langada
Walking through quiet Langada
at siesta time on a very hot day
Deb looking for more film
in Langada
Always lots of stairs in Greece...
At least these are going down...
Typical scene: blue gate,
whitewashed walls,
potted plants and cute little
cats
A chapel and graveyard beneath
street level in Langada
A church in Langada
The cemetery on the mountain
at Langada
Langada door in need of a
paint job
Suspended bridge made of logs
in Langada
Another Greek donkey takes
a well-deserved break
When in Langada, you must
eat at Niko's,
the best restaurant on the
island!
Road back to our hotel as
seen from Langada
Our lovely hostess at the
Aegialis, Rinni,
and her 13-year-old daughter
Hotel accordionist |
Hotel violinist (Rinni's son) |
Charming Maria, an English
teacher from the mainland
who works summers at the hotel's
front desk.
Hotel terrace set for dinner
Robijn and Deb enjoying their
last night on the island.
On to Nis
Nikuria
On to Hora
On to the rest
of Amorgos
On to Athens
On to the Acropolis
Museum
If that's not enough Greece
for you, you can always look at the
1999 pictures from Santorini
again. They're here,
here and
here.