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
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.