We decided to rent a car to head to some beaches,
But first – word of warning. You need an international drivers license in Greece (which we did not have – we have never needed one ! But luckily we found a couple of places that were willing to rent to us anyways (charging a ton extra in Crete but we had no choice since we needed the car for the week) but we just got a simple convertible smart car for exploring Santorini.
We mainly wanted to go to the beaches anyway.
We headed to Perissa beach (black sand beach ) – which I vividly remember spending time at ( and getting heat stroke at!) and we saw some backpackers there – so clearly it is the young place to go. LOL.
But since we are older, instead of spreading out our towels on the sand, we rented the chairs and umbrella and ordered drinks:) Sometimes it is rather nice to get older…
We had an ok lunch – we ordered the wrong things – but the place was cute:)
Here is a whole mix of lazy beach pictures:
Our cute little card wedged in:
After lunch , we decided to head to Red beach. We got a bit lost and went down some pretty scary roads (that we were worried about with our little smart car that if we leaned a little too far over we would tip lol)
But we got there and hiked to the beach and it was so pretty!!
We got back in time to sit on the terrace and take in the sunset again:
We found this amazing restaurant that was in the perfect location – right on the edge with incredible views – it was so romantic and delicious! It was a little chilly – and they had nice heaters and gave us blankets. It was a small restaurant with only a few tables so the service was also great. It was the perfect way to spend our last Santorini night!
