ATV's and black sand

Monday, August 16, 2010
Our main goal this morning was to make it to breakfast at the villa. It is included with the cost of the room so why not? Well it was an amazing breakfast...toast, eggs, fruit, juice, cereal, quiche...the works! It was really good! We wanted to inquire about renting an ATV again for the day so we could at least bomb around the island and check it out a little better. We were told that there were two main beaches...the red sand beaches and the black sand beaches. The red sand beaches were much too difficult to access and the terrain was less than ideal however, the black sand beaches we could park right next to the beach. So we grabbed a ride to the rental place and got ourselves and ATV. We started off on our search for the black sand beach called Kamari however, the streets are poorly marked and navigation is more luck than skill. We made it fairly easily though and Heather got us there safe and sound. We parked pretty close to the beach and I was able to hop my way over to the closest lounge chairs. The sand as promised was very hot to walk on. It was a gorgeous little spot though and we spent the majority of the afternoon lounging and soaking up the sun. We then headed back through Fira to our villa to get ready for dinner. We wanted to head out to somewhere Greek for a nice dinner. George at the villa recommended a few places for us to try and we decided on one just up the road. We hopped on the ATV and headed to this place. The food was really, really good. It was definitely traditional Greek food. It was funny though, they had a platter with a sample of all of the appetizers on it and you could see everything...very enticing! We had these amazing stuffed peppers and some escargot as well. Heather chose to have the lamb...(that’s ok, I make lamb ) and I had the moussaka. It was definitely a good last night to our relaxing (forcefully so) stay in Santorini. After dinner we headed back to the villa and headed to bed...we were so exhausted.