I woke up not feeling well and we decided to lay low for the morning. But what a great spot for laying low. I spent the morning hanging out on our patio reading Hemmingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” and enjoying the view. By early afternoon, I felt well enough that we decided to take an amble out onto Skaros. It turned out to be more than an amble. The path became quite rough with a lot of steep ascending and descending. We didn’t ever get to the very top of the peak. The climb became quite steep—literal climbing, not walking. Since the footing was loose gravel and there was nothing between us and the sea below except hundreds of feet of air, we decided to forgo that experience. We did enjoy poking around in the ruins, though. Kathy discovered a hole on the bank of the path that was the entrance to an intact room right under the walking path. There was enough sunlight filtering into the room that we could see an interesting passageway. We left the passageway and whatever it led to unexplored. We also found a little white stuccoed church tucked away at the very end of Skaros. We also discovered that there was fennel growing wild along the path. Chewing on a few fennel seeds as we walked was refreshing.
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It was late afternoon by the time we trekked back to the main part of the island and then we settled on our patio to watch the sunset again. This sunset was not as spectacular as the day before. While the previous day had been cloudy, the clouds had separated at the western horizon just in time for sunset. This day had been partly cloudy and the clouds actually congealed at the horizon just before sunset. Thus ended our second day on Santorini. It was low-key, but enjoyable.
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