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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…