This week is all about the immediate weeks past in Cyclades, the fancy way of saying Santorini and Ios, and Istanbul. We'll go chronologically, beginning in Santorini, boat about 20 miles north by northwest to Ios, then east to Istanbul.
Our Santorini visit was foretold 3,602 years ago when the island's volcano exploded, collapsing upon itself and forming that thing so deep that W's afraid to swim in it, the caldera, which is a little like arroyo or alluvium, one of those geological words you don't know unless you live near one. Arrive on the island without an iPhone or doing much pre-research, like we hadn't, and it's like starting a movie right in the middle.
"Our restaurant overlooks the caldera...the sunset from the ridge above the caldera," is what one hears everywhere on Santorini. Yet it only takes one night to figure out what the caldera is and why half of Europe pays a lot of Euros for hotel rooms with views of it.
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| W explaining what the island looked like and what the Minoans ate 3,603 years ago |
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| Fira, home of our hotel without a caldera view |
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| Our restaurant with a caldera view |
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| Nothing to do with a caldera |
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| Oia |
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