I still have a few more thoughts about Santorini and of course our wine tour.

First is they have over 500 Greek Orthodox churches on this island. One that was close to us probably had enough room for maybe 8 people. Only one Catholic Church, but Dennis could not tell me where it was.

Their grape vines do not look like the ones you see in the states, Italy or France. They are low, and in a circle resembling a basket. The grapes are picked in August, and because it rains so little here, and they use no irrigation, they are watered by the heavy mist coming off the Aegean Sea at night. These vines here in Greece are the oldest in Europe, and they produce mainly dry white wines. After swirling the wine, you see “lines”on the glass or what we call “legs.” Here they refer to that as tears, because they fall down. They have a great dessert wine here called Vinsanto. I mentioned it yesterday as the wine they use for communion in the Orthodox Churches. To produce this wine, the growers put the grapes on their roofs to dry out, and make raisins. The wine is then made from those. I am not a big sweet wine person, however a girl does not turn down when given a couple of free samples at the various restaurants we had dinner.

Yesterday we relaxed by the pool we had outside our door. And then in the late afternoon we went back into town to explore some more, enjoy the coolness of the evening, and talk to more locals. Santorini has captured my heart.

Today we are taking a boat to Mykonos.