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[mels_image]

SO. since it's been forever and ever and ever since any of you have heard from me, i've decided to start back by dropping an incredibly HUGE bombshell on y'all.

i'm pretty sure i'm moving to europe. greece (santorini island, probably the city of Oia) or italy.

cool, huh?!

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[onesyrinx]

Eh, you don't want to go to Santorini. It's flooded with tourists day in and day out all day every day. Pick a less popular island if you're thinking of that area.

[mels_image]

are all areas of santorini so tourist-packed? i've read that Fira and Oia are huge attractions, but is the entire island like that?

[onesyrinx]

It's a giant tourist attraction. Not all parts of the island are packed with people, but it's a cruise ship port in a major way. The only other island I can think of off hand that's the same way if not worse is Mykonos. They're both beautiful islands, but they're also the most well known. Try going to http://www.greeka.com/ for an overview of all of the islands. Actually, the mainland is just as beautiful.

[mels_image]

i've practically lived on greeka.com since i came up with the idea; great site.

since you're the only person i have access to who's been there (stepdad's sister has been, but we don't talk much. ever. at all.) i'm hoping to bounce ideas off of you...

was there anywhere you went that seemed to have a higher population of english speaking people? seeing as how i know NO greek whatsoever (i CAN order food at a greek restaurant, but i don't see as how that counts) i was hoping to find someplace with at least a few people who speak half-way decent english. i guess touristy places are going to have that, but they'll mostly be tourists... and that doesn't help me much.

mara, thank you for your help! you're awesome.

[onesyrinx]

When I was in Greece, I only ran across one person that didn't speak English and that was in a place I would assume you'd never go...because honestly I would never, ever go back there. And even in that instance he simply found someone who knew English and we were fine. I found mostly everyone, from the mainland to Crete to the Islands, to be very friendly and mostly everyone (people I needed to converse with for food or whatever else like taxi service and the like) knew English either fluently or enough to understand. What you might like to know is that many, many Greeks that I met were actually Australian (as Melbourne has a giant Greek population) so English is atually a very prominent language all over the country.

And please feel free to ask me questions. I love talking about that place. It's beautiful and I feel everyone should experience it. :)