Our last day in Santorini was a relaxing and mellow day. We woke up, checked out of the hotel, and had a delicious breakfast at a restaurant called Mama’s.
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| Our last breakfast in Santorini |
We spent the afternoon briefly using the Internet at the hotel and then walking through the shops in Fira. Later we had scheduled a skype date with our significant others so we went to a bar with an amazing view of the cliffs. That way, when we talked with them they could see the amazing view!
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| The view from the bar |
The awesome people at our hotel drove us to the airport where we relaxed with a frappe on the airport’s open-top restaurant. Then it was a quick flight back to Athens! We spent the night in the airport where we learned the transportation strike was still going on - thank goodness we’d visited Athens when we did! The next morning we caught an early flight to Zurich, our first stop on our three flight trip home to Denver.
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| Santorini's airport from the open roof restaurant |
Zurich!
When we arrived in Zurich we had a five hour layover so we decided to head into town for a few hours! The train ride was quick and relatively cheap. At first we didn’t even know what language they spoke (turns out, German) and we were expecting that they used Euros but no, they use Swiss Franks. We quickly got up to speed and once off the train, walked the famous Bahnhofstrasse - their main street with very high end shops (lots of jewelry and watches). We then walked along the Limmat river and admired the gorgeous architecture.
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| Early morning deserted street in Zurich |
The river flows into Lake Zurich which was lovely and surprisingly, home to a lot of swans. It was a foggy morning so we couldn’t see the Alps in the distance. We walked through a small street market which was pretty cool and then crossed the river.
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| Lake Zurich |
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| Swans! |
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| Swiss market |
We decided to have breakfast at a cafe and luckily the waiter spoke English. He was quite patient with us since neither one of us know any German. We sat outside and while it was chillier than it’s been in Greece or Italy, it was a lovely morning. We had croissants, fresh orange juice, deliciously strong coffee, and a very over easy egg for breakfast. Then we walked back to the train station staying on the other side of the river and headed back to the airport.
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| Our delicious breakfast |
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| Zurich |
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| Zurich |
Then it was a 10 hour flight to Chicago and a 3 hour flight to Denver! The long flight to Chicago went faster than we expected (although I did watch three movies and a few TV shows). It was a fantastic trip and I’m so glad we did it! Steph was an amazing traveling companion and the places we saw, the food we ate, the wine we drank, everything we did - I’ll never forget.
p.s. Sorry about the delay of posting Santorini! Life caught up with me faster than I was expecting once home.
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