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Given the ongoing sabotage of our democratic system, I wanted to honor the ‘cradle of democracy’ with a short series of photos from a couple visits to islands in the Cyclades, the first series from 2012. With Greece struggling with severe recession woes that year, we decided to dump a few tourist €€ into their economy. We headed to the islands, with a Greek friend giving us tips on which islands were her favorites…
First stop was Santorini (Thera) where we stayed in a cave house in Oia, the picturesque village perched on the cliffs in northernmost Santorini. A real splurge. Our terrace looked across the caldera. The village filled with tourists from cruise ships during the day, but they mostly disappeared by the late afternoon. A long, steep path led to a seafood restaurant on the water’s edge of Ammoudi Bay where we could watch the sunset. With donkeys for those who didn’t want to trek back up on foot.