Santorini - The Dress Made it Out

For those of you who read the earlier post of the Amish dress … well, one of my traveling companions was one of those who had a very good laugh at the Amish dress and told me in no uncertain terms, it had to go. So I trust her fashion sense. Well, unfortunately, I was not to be immune this vacation either … as we were out on our boat doing a lot of swimming, my bikini bottoms were unfortunately critiqued – yes they might have been a little old and maybe even a little big … but still, 'nanny knickers' hardly seemed fair ... that's what you get for traveling with two blunt Aussies ... needless to say, they were ceremoniously disposed of that night (after drinks) and a new more figure flattering bikini was purchased the next day ...

Then there is the story of the Dress – the one that I was told explicitly should be worn. Well we decided to head out to Fira on one of our last nights, the main town on Santorini, a cliff top town known for it's magical sunsets. The girls were going out and the pretty dresses were being worn! We looked good, if I do say so myself - and you'd be able to see if I can fix this damn picture thing ...

We headed first for a 'sunset' bar - one of the many, many patios that line the top of the hill and provide a wonderful view of both the town and the sunset. (When you look across and down, you can see all the buildings that go up the cliff - mostly hotels with magical looking pools and rooms that must go right into the cliff.) After our one, very "view" priced drink and many photos snapped, we headed off to explore the town - very busy with everyone out wandering, shopping and eating. One of my friends had been here twice before - 10 and 16 years ago if I get it right - and both times had been to this one particular restaurant, so we were off memory hunting. We managed to find it and had a lovely dinner - it was one of many rooftop places away from the cliff, family run and friendly - the best places are - with good food and a little ouzo to boot.

At a certain point, we decided to head back to Kamari and continue from there - we needed to say we'd been to at least one club on the trip ... there was one we'd walked by many times and the gentleman out front seemed just that, a gentleman - so we tried it out. Well, we can say we've been - not sure if it was the fact that it was a Sunday night, or we were just tired from our exhausting vacation but, by one drink, we were done.

All in all, it was a very fun night out and I can at least now say, the Dress has been worn!