After downing the chocolate croissant, I headed out the door. I went back down to the view point on the caldera I had explored the night before, I wanted to take some pictures in the daylight. After doing that I decided to find the bus station so that I could check out Kamari, the famous volcanic black beach. The bus ride was simple and straight forward and only cost a 1.25 Euro.
Being that it was late March, there were not many people around the area, or the beach. The sand was more like pebbles and it was hard on the feet. I sat around for a while listening to music, then I went to go explore the area. It seemed like most of the people in Santorini were workers, getting the place ready for the busy season. After that I decided to take the bus back into town, I thought I might have a long wait on my hands, but it came around pretty quickly. When I got back to Fira I was starving, I spotted a restaurant by the bus station. I thought it might be a little fancy for lunch by myself, but the menu was reasonably priced. Everyone at "Mama's" was so nice including the waiter, he told me about his travels to Canada and how in Santorini everyone works 7 days a week a and long hours, but they also get 4 months off a year, so it's a good trade off! As I was leaving Mama invited me back for breakfast and enticed me with some free hot chocolate!
I decided to go roaming around the Caldera, thinking maybe I could walk the 2-3 hours to Oia to catch the sunset, but I couldn't determine what was the exact route so I didn't stray to far. I got to take some amazing pictures, I just was completely blown away. I'd never seen anywhere so beautiful, I felt like everything needed to be torn down and rebuilt to look like Santorini. This is the way to live, you don't need much space as long as you make it beautiful and your own. After walking and taking pictures for quite a while I ran out of scenery and ended up towards an area that looked a bit more desolate and decided to walk back to the bus station so that I could go to Oia to catch the sunset, it's the most famous thing to do in Santorini.As I boarded the bus, this guy came and sat next to me and started chatting me up. He told me that he was Italian, but that he lived and worked in Santorini. I asked him why he was going to see the sunset if he lived here already he told me he just felt like taking it in. I thought it was nice to have someone to hangout with, so I didn't mind him, but I was a bit suspicious at the same time. When we got to Oia, we walked around town taking pictures, everything was perched so high it was incredible. I felt like dancing around the place, it was magical. When the sun started to go down Giovanni and I headed to the other side where everyone was crowding for the main event. Instead of watching it with the crowed we found a spot high above where all the houses were and took it in from there, it was amazing. My disappointment though was that I was having trouble with my dslr camera and instead I had to use my regular point and shoot.
After taking in the sunset, the bus wasn't coming for a while so we went to get cappuccinos. Giovanni was though it was mediocre, but of course he would being Italian and all. When we got back to town, Giovanni offered to show me where the camera store so that I could get my dslr looked at, but the man couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. We then decided to go for dinner, it was kind of fun to hang out with a local who knew his way around. At dinner Giovanni admitted to me that he had seen me on the street going to the bus station and decided to follow me to Oia. I was in shock, my friend turned out to be a stalker! He did pay for my meal, so I figured he couldn't be a complete Greek. Then we went out for coffee, and afterwards he took me to this bar called Murphy's that he use to work at and of course he seemed to know everyone in the vicinity. After some drinks, I headed back to my hotel to crash some more, the next day was going to be full on as I was doing to the Volcano tour.
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