Well our last night in Oia with a most spectacular sunset from our private cave at the Marizan Studios.

This has been a beautiful week with excellent company (me of course) and a nice unwind. It has been a lovely rest, a chance to recharge the batteries after some long weeks at work, and a chance to be very selfish and spend 24/7 with each other uninterrupted save for the odd waiter, sunset and next beer order!

Would we come back a third time? Probably not now. For 2 reasons, the over commercialisation of the place catering heavily to the US and also for the same sort if money we have spent here we could do three fun weeks travelling the States, or do 10 days in the Carribean, so on next to planning the next trip in 2010 suggestions on a postcard please.

Today was our last full day in Oia and we had the pleasure of watching the Judy’s on tour. The picture only shows the back of Judy number one’s head but oh my what a show they put on. It would appear that Judy one is waiting for her man to turn up, that she picked up on the tour. Judy two advised her to call her no good man for eating in to her time!

Dripping in garish, large. oppulant jewelry (purchase from the US version of Accessorise), with high perfectly quaffed hair, yes your A-typical Americans on tour. Discussing the joys of manicures, waving their hands feverishly over their food and shouting shoo at the flies (that’s gonna work), ordering a “cake thing” if you have them here! Judy two finishing her cake thing, puts on the lippy and asks Judy one “is my lipstick straight, do I have bits in my teeth”. No love you look perfectly plastic

Latest conversation is what piece of ivory necklace madonna happens to be wearing and how hard actors must have it. These chicks must be from La-La Land. These are the future leaders of America or basically the future Moms in their new trailer parks?

According to Mrs Fogg, I am quite rude (well yes I am), but these ain’t your typical Americans, these are your vapid, one brain celled things that are the future of our overall society. Like I really care.

So after nearly poisoning Mr Fogg at Dimitri’s off we went to Kamari to buy icecream and people watch on the sea front.

As you can see from the pic, Mr Fogg appears to have recovered well but is looking forward to a chilled beer when we get back to Oia later!

Kamari has changed, as has much of Santorini since we were last here. Far more touristy now but unfortunately as with many tourist draws it also brings dodgy restaurants and tacky bars. It remains a beautiful island but one that expects you to pay a high price for good food, average drinks and pleasant surroundings.

It is certainly a romantic place to sip drinks and watch the sunsets, browse overpriced trinkets and people watch as the evening develops but there is very little else to entertain unless you want to spend some serious money.

If you like spending quality time together in a very relaxed location with tremendous scenery in Oia or Fira then this is the place to be. Just bring the credit card and expect to pay for it!

tWas 7 years ago that we visited Santorini and stopped in the little place of Perissa, that at the time was quaint and cheap. Cut forward to present day and Perissa is a lot like any British seaside town offering “Full Inglis Brakefast” at £12 each. Ouch

Yup things sure have changed here, you can find the occasional gem, but be prepared to pay regardless, even in the Locals places. After the influx of the Americans, Greece has realised there is a killing to be made.

We hired a Peugeot 107 today (the Mrs decided a Quad bike was a little too risky), they even supply automatics to make sure our cousins can drive. Took a drive to Perissa and Kamari where there is an acient city of Thira which is up about 600 feet of about 40 switch backs on cobbled road.

The picture is from Thira looking down to Perissa (we walked up that 7 years ago, oh my). If you look at the map below you can see the twisty turny road from Kamari up the hill.

So now a chill then an amble back to Oia for a nice evening meal. Oh we did stop at Dimitris Tavern in Vlychada and can definitely recommend you avoid at all costs, yuck!

Two more days then back to cold wet England.

See you all soon.

We walked the 220 odd steps down to the port at Oia (only to have to face going back up them drunk).

At the bottom it was time for refreshment and the chance to pick our very own lobster from the tank, taken kicking and screaming into the kitchen, did we carnivores feel guilty, put it this way does the tax man feel guilty taking our hard earned? nah.

This was Mrs Foggs first experience of a full lobster complete with shell crackers, yum was the response. The restaurant even gave us a free beer and desert, considering the lobster was 89euro a kilo, I should coco!

And then the hike back up, nothing compared to the Grand Canyon, but steep nonetheless. We even saw a topless beach down there (needless to say I needed to look at the scenery!). On the way back up we listened to some typical yanks proclaiming that there must be a bus to catch back up since no one would be expected to climb that distance on foot. Oh America we salute you.

The saying goes weathers nice wish you were here, but quite frankly we are enjoying ourselves so much we have thought of nothing but food, drink and each other.

It has been a fantastic few days so far, 24degrees, sunshine and fantastic relaxation. Today we took the scarey bus from Oia to Thira to womble round there and take the cable car to the old port, a very nice day indeed.

Tomorrow we are contemplating hiring a quad bike, ahhh scarey stuff on Greek roads indeed.

Food has generally been very nice, however Oia has certainly increased it’s prices, £7.50 for a bottle of beer and £23 for a bottle of wine in some places, rising to £35. OUCH!!!! Ah the Euro and tourism. Americans are now here in their droves on holiday (it is so funny to watch).

So we have 3 days left until we fly home and then it is the long slog to Christmas, but at least we can introduce Spike to his new home next week.

Off for more food and drink now.

Well we made it after arriving at checkin 1hr 40 mins too early (much to the annoyance of the checkin staff), a dodgy breaky at Frankie and Bennies and a terribly tiny seating layout on the plane. But then we did have a bottle of the fizzy water so all was well.

After arriving at Santorini 30 mins later than expected, our poor driver had waited an hour. At the Marizan Studios, Yannis greeted us and even offered to drive us to a seafood restaurant, really nice man. The private cave is down 69 uneven steps (checkout our calves when we return) and is very private and totally amazing. Hats off again to Mrs Fogg and Tripadvisor for this one, wow.

Oh yes Santorini here we comes. Me and the Mrs will be jetting off very shortly on a short. Luggage packed, check, moved house (again), check, been to Ireland, check. Then we is all set.

Mrs Foggy has found a beautiful hotel in Oia (pronounced Eeaa), the Marrizan studio which is a hotel built into the rock (well here’s hoping it’s nice anyhoo). Don’t really matter cos there will be too young lovers (yes young still covers me) enjoying, sun, sea, relaxation and each other.

See y’all soon

Well hello all.

We are now moved, still lots of unpacking to do, but we are in and yesterday we met the neighbours, real quiet lot really, not many late night (g)raves.

This is a very quiet area, dead quiet at times. We have Lorna’s favourite owls, the Teet and lots of deer as well.

Give us a few weeks and we will be completely sorted (kitchen, utility and living living room) and ready to have some good friends over.