Santorini to Naxos

Thursday 16 May (Day 23)

The ferry from Santorini to Naxos wasn’t due to leave until 3:30pm so we had a restful morning before taking a bus to the bus station then another bus to the ferry port.  When the ferry docked and the rear doors opened it seemed as if the whole of humanity was disembarking.

The passengers getting on to the ferry consisted of older people (like us) and young backpacking types.  We surmised that the old people were going to Naxos and the young people were going to Paros or back to the main port of Piraeus in Athens.

We arrived in Naxos at 6pm and all of us old people left the ferry.  A taxi took us to our accommodation where we met Timos the owner.  Timos is an English teacher at the local school, a very intelligent chap who loves to talk about the current problems in Greece and Naxos.  We coud have listened to him all evening but we needed to walk down to the supermarket to get some supplies.  Timos's mum also gave us a jar of her delicious homemade strawberry jam so that should make breakfasts a bit more interesting for a while!

Friday 17 May (Day 24)

Today we walked down to the main town (Chora).  There is an old venetian part to the town with quaint narrow walkways.  Naxos doesn’t have an international airport so it’s very quiet.  They did start to lengthen the port to accommodate cruise ships but it was aborted due to environmental reasons (don’t get Timos started on that!).  We managed to find our way out of the warren of alleyways to walk along the seafront before walking back up the hill.

Saturday 18 May (Day 25)

Took another walk into Chora to see the temple of Apollo (another one).  The temple was very 'Stargate-esque', if you walked through it you ended up somewhere else in time and space.  We also tried to work out the local bus system so we can visit more of the island later in the week.

Santorini (Fira) from the sea

 Naxos (Chora old town)

 Temple of Apolla (Naxos)