Our Greek Honeymoon

One of the many things I love about Greece is that each island has so much to see and explore. While there are recurring themes, beautiful beaches, hilltop towns, lots of whites and blues, everything is still so unique and contains so much of it’s own character.

Our third day in Naxos, we decided to drive to Aperathou. This town is way up in the mountains and is similar to mountains towns we’ve seen but yet also like nothing we’ve ever seen.

But first the drive. We left on the early side, ten am, but with two days of boycotting toddler naps and windy roads this happened pretty quickly. (ps- for all you worried readers out there don’t worry we fixed Malcolm’s head right after this picture and also normally have him rear facing but he was getting too hot back there with no air in our little car so we made an exception)

So….Randy and I decided to take our time and let both boys get some nap time in. Since we were on vacation we had been keeping them out pretty late and the drive was so beautiful it was pretty amazing to stop (by stop I mean step right out of the car and take pictures right there) but even just those couple minutes taking pictures outside of the car let us take it all in! I have to say, we love our boys more than anything but this hour was like a mini honeymoon!

I love how in Greece they put churches way up on top of hills. See the little white one way up there?

Right before we arrived this little guy woke up.

After about an hour and a half of meandering through the mountains of Naxos we eventually made it to Amerathou.

We were driving around looking for the best place to park when we saw this. No zoom needed, this beautiful white horse was really this close. Adam, who LOVES horsies as he calls them was still asleep. We eventually found where to park and decided to go back and wake Adam up to see the horse but it was gone. After the fact I realized I should have woken him up the first time….but as anyone with a toddler can attest, waking them up can be a potential minefield of screams and cries. Nothing is worse than a sleepy toddler! Oh well, maybe next time Adam 🙂

We had been in the car for a while at this point with all our meandering so we headed right in to find a taverna. We picked the last one on the row of tavernas and we weren’t disappointed. Locally made cheese for our Greek salad, delicious spinach pies and cheese pies. Our waitress was amazing and even went next door to get Adam a lollipop.

After a yummy meal, we walked around the town. They had a little natural history museum that Adam loved. There were little animals and bones that reminded Adam of his Curious George find Dinosaur Bones book.

After walking around so much we were tired and needed to refuel. So we stopped in for some yummy orange cake. Adam was STILL eating his lollipop so more cake for us.