The Santorini sunrise is the half of this island’s light that nobody photographs, and the reason is geography. The famous sunset happens over the caldera, facing west, with four thousand people watching it from Oia. The sun comes up on…
The Akrotiri lighthouse Santorini keeps at the far south west tip of the island is the answer to a question thousands of visitors ask every summer and almost nobody gets a good reply to: where can I watch the sun…
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…
Pyrgos Santorini is the old capital of this island and the one village where you can stand still and see the entire thing at once: the caldera and the volcano to the west, the black sand coast and the open…
Imerovigli Santorini is the highest village on the caldera rim and the one that people who know this island choose when they can afford to. It sits about three hundred metres above the water between Fira and Oia, on the…
Oia Santorini is the most photographed village in Greece and the one visitors most often describe as both extraordinary and disappointing in the same sentence. Both are correct, and the difference between them is entirely a matter of what time…
There are more things to do in Santorini than the island’s reputation suggests, and most published lists cover the same six of them. This is a working guide rather than a highlights reel: what each thing actually involves, how long…
The Santorini cruise port is unlike any other in the Mediterranean, and almost everything that goes wrong on a call here traces back to one fact: there is no dock. The caldera is a flooded volcanic crater with water three…
Three days is the length of stay we are asked about more than any other, and it is genuinely enough — provided the days are shaped correctly. The mistake almost every three day plan makes is treating the island as…
A Santorini volcano tour is the only way to stand inside the thing that made this island. The caldera everyone photographs from the rim is a drowned crater seven kilometres across, and the two black islets in the middle of…