.....Before leaving, I thought we would pay a high premium to stay on Santorini even tho the main season was winding down. But when we rode the city bus up from the docks to the station, there was the usual assault of the mosquitos - men and women aggressivley wanting us to stay at their accomodations. One older man had a nice brochure and claimed only to want 30 Euros to stay at his place (way too low - about 36 U.S. or 39 Cdn.), and I initially turned him down because I did not want to stay in such a low end place. But he was insistent that it was grand and he even had CNN. We had to walk up the hill toward the town centre anyway, so I agreed to have a look. Oddly, it was somehow sandwiched in under the side of a church and under its bell tower, and faced the ocean but not on the crater side. You can see it in the photo with the brightly coloured chairs and table. He was right - it was so beautiful and simple and Greek. He was a kind man who looked after us as real guests and was true to his word on every score. We had a balcony looking out over the sea with two chairs and a table and two nice beds and hot water and a refrigerator not to even mention a tv which we preferred to ignore as much as possible. Subsequently I met so many people who had paid 7 to 10 times as much as we did. They were all in disbelief that we could have gotten such a nice place for so little.
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