Sorry it's been a while since we've written..
We are now getting settled here in Santorini and both of us have jobs. I ended up not taking that first one b/c the hours would have been 6 pm til 5 am, which is pretty crazy. Tony had a potential job at this place called Blues, and we ended up walking by there one day and the owner actually wanted a girl to work during the day and set me up with a trial shift. In the meantime, we went to a restaurant called Charlina for dinner one night and talked to the manager, who said he needed someone to serve drinks on the beach. I ended up getting the job at Blues and Tony at Charlina.
Tony works from 9-5 on the beach and is quite tan/red now :P. I work from 10-6 and luckily get an hour break for lunch, during which I take the 10 min walk to Tony's beach and we eat lunch together. Tony says that it is one of his favorite jobs - "I work on a mediterranean beach all day serving alcohol to various people from around the world - what is there not to like?" My job is cool - the mornings can be pretty busy with breakfast, but then from about 2-6 pm I have maybe 1 or 2 customers, so I pretty much walk around cleaning. We make pretty decent money for the island, just enough to cover our living expenses, which was the goal. We found an apartment that we were supposed to be in for the next month, but when we showed up the girl running it said she had forgotten that a tourist office had booked the rooms full starting the next week. So we will be there for the next 4 days or so and then need to find a new place for the remaining weeks. We have a couple of leads so hopefully all will go well.
The other day we rented an ATV to go see a sunset in Oia, which is the major place that everyone goes to see the famous sunset. At the rental place however, the owner convinced us to go to Akrotiri, which is a lot closer and more beautiful, according to him. So we drove the thing to Akrotiri, had a nice dinner and saw the sunset... which was gorgeous. From the point we were ( a lighthouse), you could see Fira, Oia, and the volcano along with some other islands... great view. However, on the way back we realized that we hadn't filled the thing up with gas (and here when you rent a vehicle the tank is nearly empty). The ATV slowly putt putted and stopped. We were on a road kind of in the middle of nowhere and luckily the next car to go by was an AMerican guy. he was just about to check in to his hotel, so told us he would drop off his bags and come back (but not too happy about it). We spent about 10-15 mins driving around looking for a gas station. We filled up a water bottle with gas and went back to the ATV, but it wouldn't start. By this time it is night. The man took us back to his hotel, where we were (barely) able to communicate to the Greek owners that we needed a taxi to take us to Perissa. The woman who owned the hotel made us some dessert and gave us water, and fnally we made it home in a taxi, afer a 2 hour ordeal... at least its a funny story
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Sounds like you're all settled in! Is the plan to stay in Santorini, or go on side trips as well? I was recently stranded and stumbling around Bangalore at 3am. Thank goodness for the kindness of strangers.
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