Two islands, an hour and a half apart by fast ferry, and almost nothing in common. Santorini vs Naxos is the comparison people run when they have worked out that they cannot do every island in the Cyclades and want…

There is one photograph almost everybody arrives here wanting: white walls, three blue domes stacked one behind the other, and the sea beyond. The Santorini blue domes are the most recognisable thing on this island and, for something so photographed,…

Nearly everyone who comes to this island spends their days on the caldera rim and never drives inland. That is how Emporio Santorini stays as good as it is. It is the largest village in the south, it has a…

The best half day on this island is spent looking back at it from the water. A Santorini catamaran cruise takes you along the base of the caldera cliffs, past the coloured beaches on the south coast and out to…

Eating out here is not difficult, but it is easy to do badly. The island has several hundred places to eat, they are wildly uneven in quality and price, and the ones with the best view are almost never the…

Most visitors to the south coast go to Perissa, see the black sand, and never drive the extra few minutes west. That is a mistake, because Vlychada beach Santorini is the strangest looking stretch of coast on the island and…

Every Greece itinerary eventually runs into the same fork in the road. You have two weeks, or ten days, or one week, and you cannot fit both islands in without spending half the holiday in transit. So the question becomes…