We have come across two restaurants so far who have come up with what I think is an ingenious method of separate checks. We are a group of 20 people whenever we go to a restaurant together and Raquel, our tour director, has recommended some excellent restaurant choices with outstanding food. Moreover she has made the reservation ahead of time, so the table is ready when we arrive.

Since our first bad experience when we were presented with a single bill and were asked to pay equal shares (which made everyone unhappy since some people like me did not drink alcohol), both restaurants used a numbering system. Every diner is assigned a number and the waiter writes your number on the paper tablecloth in front of you.

If by chance you are not sitting with your spouse but you are paying with the same credit card, both of you are assigned the same number.

When the orders come out, it’s easy to identify where order 100 is delivered, for example, because the number is written on your place mat.

By the same token, when it’s time to pay, the waiter calls out “600” (which was my number at lunch) and you can easily get the right check.

After breakfast, we checked out of the Hotel Bellevue and took a short bus ride to the port, where we boarded the 2-hour ferry to Santorini, the “World Champion,” the same ship we had taken to Mykonos.

When we arrived, I saw almost every sign in English for rental cars. In the other towns there has definitely been a mix of Greek and English. Our bus was the one which was parked the closest to the dock—what service!

I did enter a Catholic Church which was very ornate and looked more Orthodox than Catholic.

Our hotel in Santorini is the Kalisti, which as Karol Giblin says is a “place which does not suck!” It is actually a step up from our hotel in Mykonos.

We went to take pictures at a lighthouse and ended the evening at an excellent seafood restaurant where you examined the freshly-caught fish before ordering it.

What a spectacular sunset from that unique vantage point!