Final post – Wrapping up Greece in Santorini!

It is our travel habit to end up somewhere spectacular and just sit around for a day or two. We’ve done Taormina on Sicily and Positano in Italy. For Greece, we chose Santorini. I think it might be crazy in July but in March it’s just fine. Here’s the view from our balcony. If you’re reading on a phone, tap the tiny pic below and a video will play.

Greece has been awesome. I will return with an addiction to honey, feta cheese broiled in sesame seeds and honey, pan roasted eggplant, thick Greek yogurt and more honey. I am afraid to look up the calorie count in a tablespoon of the stuff, knowing I was easily downing 3 or 4 or 5 tablespoons at breakfast each morning and then even more throughout the day if I could get my hands on some. Corn isn’t even in the vocabulary here – it’s a nearly non-existent food, which was great compared to the Germans and Austrians, who even put it on pizza and salads.

Has it cleared my head of 2018? I don’t know – but it’s reminded me that my favorite thing to do is wander around other countries, trying their food, looking though their grocery stores (much to Ron’s incredulous protests), learning about their history and government and hearing the plans and wishes of our drivers and hotel owners. In Greece, like in Italy and Croatia and Poland etc. etc. etc., life is paced differently than in the US. Better? I guess that’s up for debate, but I always find things slower over here, with more opportunities to linger and relax. Never – not once – in Greece were we given a bill in a restaurant until we had asked for it. We were always welcome to sit, relax, enjoy.

In many chapels, I lit a candle for my mom, in the hopes that she can see me out here – still wandering around in her memory, maybe satisfied that a piece of her lives on in our shared love of travel.