Mission accepted by Seth, navigation by Jamie (despite forgetting to put in her contacts) and mostly achieved.
Today is our last full day in Santorini. Jamie is currently chained to the lounge chair, hoping no one notices if she stays. We have decided to continue taking advantage of the weather and pool until dinner. We rented a car today so we can drive around the island tomorrow and return it to the airport, thus avoiding a transfer and seeing the cool beaches. Our hotel is genius! The car arrives around 3:30 due to some persuasion (screaming and arguing) by Despina, the hotel owner, since we won't return the car until the next day at 4:30. The extra hour is apparently quite a source of contention. All is squared away, we examine the car, sign our contract and resume laying by the pool.
Seth drags us back to our room around 6:00 to get ready and we head to Ammoudi Bay for dinner and views of the sunset. On our way to dinner, we successfully stop for gas at a Santorini gas station (although Seth is temporarily convinced that the gas station attendant short changes us on gas) and Seth managed to make only slight contact with a stationary shrub on the side of the narrow and winding Santorini roads (although admittedly, this shrub is neither situated on a road that is narrow nor winding). Ammoudi is at the northern most point of the island and is the port below the town of Oia. It is a traditional village and very tiny, consisting of one store, a bunch of restaurants all boasting THE BEST SUNSET ON THE ISLAND, many boats and some houses. We walk along the short pier, take some pictures and settle in at Dimitri's, as recommended by our hotel.
The owner is Canadian and we hear the first fluent english since we arrived (particularly helpful at this restaurant and we are grateful). The place is all about the fish, you buy whatever was caught that day and choose your unsuspecting dinner from a case inside the kitchen. Seth informs me he is HUNGRY so we settle on a 1.25 kg black sea bream (probably intended for a family of four) for the low price of 60 euro (this was a deal too!). We also order fava dip, a tomato cucumber salad and octopus. The food was quite good, the crowd was hilarious (including an australian couple, a gay couple from boston and a couple in their 50s from Iowa who tried to make friends with the entire place) and the views were beautiful. The Iowa couple informed us that they met just a few years ago after divorces and now the man only thought about sex when he saw his girlfriend. He might have also sang Sheryl Crow's "All I Want to do is Have Some Fun" and knocked over one of the many glasses of gin he was drinking. Throughout this entertainment, Seth managed to eat the entire fish himself as Jamie naturally filled up on appetizers (though truth be told, Seth probably took down the majority of those as well). While the view was fabulous, the food delicious and the setting picturesque, the sunset was not at its best tonight, likely because the sun was not used to us being anywhere beside our balcony when setting. After completing the meal with a cappuccino and espresso (Jamie and Seth, respectively), we managed to locate the car and drive back to the hotel with only one near miss accident (an oncoming car in a narrow street got awfully close to our rearview mirror) and inadvertently driving past the hotel only once (not bad given the darkness). All in all, success on the road and a great final full day in Santorini.
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