The coming weeks there will be no posts because we’re going on vaca­tion to San­torini, Greece. The name San­torini was given to it by the Latin empire in the thir­teenth cen­tury, and is a ref­er­ence to Saint Irene. Before then it was known as Kallistē (Καλλίστη, “the most beau­ti­ful one”), Strongylē (Στρογγύλη, “the cir­cu­lar one”), or Thera (Θήρα).
Thera with an area of approx­i­mately 73 km² is form­ing the south­ern­most member of Cyclades group of vol­canic islands in the south­ern Aegean Sea. The Cyclades are part of a meta­mor­phic com­plex area known as the Cycladic Massif, which formed in Tri­as­sic to Ter­tiary time and were folded and meta­mor­phosed during the Alpine fold­ing around 60 mil­lion years ago.

It is the most active vol­canic centre in the South Aegean Vol­canic Arc, though what remains today is chiefly a water-​filled caldera.
The island is the site of one of the largest vol­canic erup­tions the planet has ever seen: the Minoan erup­tion (some­times called the Thera erup­tion), which occurred some 3,600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civ­i­liza­tion. The erup­tion left a large caldera sur­rounded by vol­canic ash deposits hun­dreds of feet deep and may have led indi­rectly to the col­lapse of the Minoan civ­i­liza­tion on the island of Crete, 110 km (70 miles) to the south, through the cre­ation of a gigan­tic tsunami. Another pop­u­lar theory holds that the Thera erup­tion is the source of the legend of Atlantis.

This will be Tristan’s first vaca­tion and in an air­plane. We have pre­pared and planned this well so let’s hope every­thing goes as planned and if not we’ll have to impro­vise. We have rented a nice accom­mo­da­tion called the Ramni House (see pic­ture above). All the arrange­ments were made by Eliza was here (dutch) travel agency.

Up next: Dig­i­tal Living (Part II)…

Tags: Eliza was here, Greece, Personal, Ramni House, Santorini, Thera, Thira, Tristan, Vacation