2004.10.03 in Santorini

After more gyros for lunch near the beach, we really checked out this time and learned the owner would be going down to the port by 15:00. He would take us so we wouldn't have to pay for the bus to get there (even though it meant a few hours of waiting until 19:00) and we killed the time out on the beach for the last time... We said goodbye to Janelle as she caught an early 15:30 ferry to the island of Paros and Le and I waited around for our ferry back to Piraeus (Athen's port).

Slight clarification on that last point: Le realized a couple days ago that the boat coming from Piraeus made some stops before arriving in Santorini; and when boarding they only check your ticket that one time and never again. So, we paid to "go" to Paros for 12 euros versus the 23+ euros to go 'direct' to Piraeus. Hey, it's not our fault if we slept through our paid destination... Turns out that we probably could have saved even more euros since the ferry actually made 2 island stops before Paros!

Well, the next few days would be the worst part of our trip - going from Santorini to Barcelona in 4 days and 3 nights of non-stop ferry and rail travelling - we weren't able to find a low airfare that would work with our plans...