Hello Turkey! Kuşadası.

Bro vs the dondurma vendor.  Yes, Bro fell for all the cheesy tricks :-)

Today was mainly a travel day; it was all about the journey. Our flight from Athens to Izmir was (thankfully) an uneventful one. The only remotely entertaining thing that happened was at Athens airport. We were on the shuttle bus, riding out to the plane, which was parked somewhere on the tarmac. We we on an Aegean Airlines flight. As I often do, I try to guess which is the one that I'll be on. As the driver went down one lane after another, I couldn't spot any plane that had the words Aegean Airlines printed on the body.....and it didn't seem like the driver could either. I made a joke to that extent not realizing that the driver was trying to find our plane. Ha, ha, ha.....funny. At one point, he stopped the shuttle and got on the phone to talk with someone. After he hung up, he drove for a bit more and then stopped in front of a Pegasus Airlines plane.  Uh....we're suppose to be on Aegean??  We got off the shuttle and followed the crowd up the steps to board the plane.  At the top, I asked the air hostess if we were on the correct flight and she said yes, so I continued on.  Most certainly, I didn't want to be on the wrong flight!

The National Archaelogical Museum.

One of the museum's treasure, the Artemision Bronze.  The statue represents either Zeus or Poseidon.

We had a few hours to kill before we have to get back on the metro and head to the airport for our flight to Izmir, Turkey. With our luggage safely stowed away in an empty in the basement of a small cafe in Monastiraki Square, we headed to the National Archaeological Museum. It was the one place on my Athens itinerary that we had not gotten a chance to see so now that we had the opportunity to go, we did.

Back to Athens.

Sure....our Santorini *Lamborghini*  was teeny weeny in size but it got us everywhere we needed to go....in chic style :-)

Going back to Athens from Santorini was not in the original game plan but the Greek ferry gods were not in our favor so island hopping our way to Turkey will have to be a dream for another day.

After spending the day visiting Perissa and Megalochori, we headed back to our guesthouse and spent a few minutes packing up our bags.  Bro had to clear out the fridge as well as there was no way we would be lugging any food with us to Turkey.

We decided on an early dinner.  It was back to Kamari Beach.  Unfortunately, the home style restaurant that I had wanted to go to was closed so we had no choice but be pulled in by a trolling waiter.  He was a nice guy and the restaurant looked decent as well.

Perissa and Megalochori.

Relaxing on Perissa Beach.  A most awesome and comfy hammock chair that I wanted to bring home with me!

Today's our last day in Santorini. Originally, the plan was to leave in the morning and island hop our way to Turkey but ferry schedules derailed that plan so now we're slated to take the overnight ferry back to Athens and then from there, fly to to Izmir, Turkey....the airport there services tourists staying in Kuşadası. As a result of the change in plans, there were some administrative tasks that we had to take care of.