The four-hour ferry leaving the Port of Piraeus in Athens, and smoking up a storm.

Some rope, a tube or wakeboard, and that there could be pretty fun!

The town of Piraeus itself.

Four hours on a ferry can be pretty bloody boring. We passed a few random clumps of rock...

Jared air-guitared, and the rest of us pretty much just slept!

After what was actually five hours due to rough and nausea-inducing seas, we reached Santorini, some 200kms southeast of mainland Greece.

Man just look at the colour of that water - nice!

A small, circular archipelago of volcanic islands are what make up Santorini, the largest of which (this one) is known as Thira. The photos above are overlooking Fira, located half-way up west coast of Thira perched some 300 metres above sea level on the lava-layered cliffs, and is the capital of Santorini.

The gorgeous little backstreets of Fira.

Santorini has a total population of around 13,000 and is widely regarded as the most spectacular of all the Greek islands (which I'd have to agree with). Its violent volcanic past is visible everywhere. The photos above are looking over a caldera at Nea Kameni, an island of volcanic lava (more on that later). Through the centuries, volcanic eruptions have regularly changed the shape of the island. The caldera above is the result of an almighty eruption in 1650 BC (speculated to be the biggest such explosion in recorded history) - prior to that Santorini was circular and known as Strongili (the Round One). Not anymore!

Absolutely stunning!

And she wasn't bad either! She just rocked up, leaving little to the imagination, while that guy photographed her (as did we ;)

Santorini has a lot of puddy-tats that, like the cats in Rome and the Dogs elsewhere in Greece, are cared for by the city.

"Oooo yeah, that feels good!"

They wander around restaurants as well just waiting to be fed hehe. And none of the locals mind at all - big animal-lovers the Greeks.

I could live on Greek food and nothing else, quite happily (as could the cats :)