What a way to start the day: with a homemade Continental breakfast and this gorgeous view.
Tuesday was scheduled to be "down time," so the only thing on the agenda was walking into Fira to take the funicular down to the Old Port, where I wanted to eat lunch at a fancy cocktail restaurant.
It was a quick and reasonably smooth ride; we shared a car with a British couple who usually visit her sister in Las Vegas, but it's becoming so expensive that Santorini was a nice and closer alternative. It seemed that most of the folks riding up/down were also coming on/off the two cruise ships moored out a little ways and being ferried in little boats back and forth.
Alas, it turned out the restaurant I wanted to patronize is still closed for "the winter," so we ended up at the only one open this early, Taverna Syrtaki. The proprietor asked us whether we wanted fish or meat, and since we're the original surf-and-turf combo, he told us he would grill me a whole red snapper and Dear Husband a lamb shank. And that's what we got, along with some bread with tzatziki, fries, and a little salad. Other people had extremely fresh "catch of the day": we watched one of the employees stand on the edge of the dock with a spool of line and a little bait that he used to snag some really dumb fish. It was nice being down by the water, although someone at a nearby table was smoking, and it irritated my face. There wasn't much else going on, so we paid and found the donkey stand, where we rented four-footed rides to the top!
We hiked back up to Firastefani, wondering what people do when they or their joints age too much to climb these stairs. Below is a mural along the way that I think says "Santorini's eyes" and the "three bells of Fira," which I believe is a church to Our Lady/Mary.
After DH had a nap, I made dinner: pasta nests with marinaded mussels in pesto sauce with Greek salad. Not too shabby for a galley kitchen and a bodega. We cleaned up and then sat on the bed to catch up with Saturday Night Live via YouTube. Feeling peckish, we ventured out for ice cream at a local cafe, which overlooks the caldera as well as "the abandoned boat" on the roof of the hotel below it.
I think I snapped the best picture of the sunset this day:
Coming up! Day 4: Oia & Ammoudi Bay
Beautiful pictures!!!
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