Santorini has a reputation for being expensive and it earns most of it, but the reputation obscures something true: the best things on this island are free. The walk along the caldera rim, the ruined castle on Skaros, the medieval…
Santorini with a baby is entirely doable and it is not the holiday the photographs sell. This island is a cliff with several thousand steps cut into it, no shade to speak of, black sand that reaches painful temperatures by…
A Santorini packing list is not the same as a Greek islands packing list, and the difference is what this page is about. This island is a volcano with three hundred metres of cliff on one side, black grit instead…
Santorini diving is an odd and rather wonderful thing, and it is not what most people expect. There are no coral gardens here and no clouds of fish. What there is instead is the inside of a volcano: black lava…
Ancient Thira is the classical city that stands on the ridge of Mesa Vouno, the limestone mountain that separates Kamari from Perissa, about three hundred and sixty metres above the two beaches. It is the least visited major site on…
Amoudi Bay Santorini is the old fishing port of Oia, three hundred steps below the village at the foot of a wall of red volcanic rock. There is no sand and there never was. What there is instead is a…
Perissa beach Santorini is the longest stretch of black sand in the Cyclades and the cheapest place on this island to have a proper Greek beach holiday. It sits on the south east coast behind the great rock of Mesa…
Kamari beach Santorini is the island’s most practical resort and the one the caldera crowd tends to overlook. It is a long straight sweep of black volcanic sand on the east coast, under the huge rock of Mesa Vouno, with…
Red Beach Santorini is the island’s most photographed stretch of coast and the one that most often disappoints people who arrive without knowing what they are walking into. It is a small bay of dark red and black pebble beneath…
The Santorini hot springs are the most oversold and most misunderstood item on the island’s excursion menu, and we would rather tell you plainly what they are before you book. They are not a spa, there are no pools, no…