Almost every page on the internet about buying a Santorini SIM card is written by somebody selling one, which is why almost none of them lead with the fact that a large share of visitors here do not need one…
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 cave hotels are the reason a great many people book this island rather than any other, and they are also the single thing guests most often get wrong. A real one is a yposkafo: a dwelling dug backwards into…
Santorini vs Rhodes is a comparison between two islands that have almost nothing in common except the country they sit in. One is a drowned volcano seventy six square kilometres across with fifteen thousand residents and a cliff full of…
Santorini to Folegandros is the shortest worthwhile island hop from here and the one that changes people’s idea of what the Cyclades are. Forty minutes to an hour on a fast ferry puts you on an island of about seven…
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…
Santorini to Milos is the most rewarding island hop in the Cyclades and the one most people plan badly. The two islands are both volcanic, both spectacular and almost nothing alike: Santorini is a drowned crater with a cliff full…
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…
Megalochori Santorini is the prettiest village on this island and the one almost nobody stops in. It sits inland in the south west, ten minutes from Fira on the road towards Akrotiri, and it is a small tangle of white…
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…