Greece
September 20, 2025
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Day 7, a day late, but most of our group got on the early morning slow ferry to Santorini, with stops in Paros and Naxos. We took the slow ferry, because it takes 7-9 hours
instead of 5-7 hours on the fast ferry. But the ferry was packed because it was taking travellers from this day, and ones from the day before that had been cancelled.
After arriving in Santorini, the bus to the hotels joined the slow traffic-jammed zig zag up the cliffs to the Hotel Matina in Kamara, near the eastern coast of the island.
The only activity that was open on a Saturday night was a quiet trip up the road to Estate Argyros, which sells wines in Canada, most of them under the Atlantis name.
Why Atlantis? A good number of details in
Plato's book from 360 BC echos events at Ancient Akrotiri in Santorini, such as the disappearing city underwater that had similarities to the destruction of Akrotiri around 1600 BC.
However, most consider Plato's book a political allegory on ideal government, and not based on actual history.
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Above: A lonely church on a rock on a Greek Cyclades island in the Aegean Sea.
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