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…
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…
Santorini museums are small, cheap and almost entirely overlooked, which is a shame because two of them hold objects that would headline a national collection anywhere else. The frescoes lifted from Akrotiri are among the finest surviving wall paintings of…
Santorini villas divide into two very different products that share a word. On the caldera rim, a villa usually means a cave suite cut into the cliff with a terrace and a plunge pool, sleeping two to four, priced accordingly.…
Santorini in winter is a genuinely different island, and whether that is wonderful or disappointing depends almost entirely on what you came for. The caldera is still there, the villages are still white against the cliff, and the light in…
Deciding where to stay in Santorini matters more here than on almost any other Greek island, because the place is really two islands joined by a ridge. On one side a cliff of villages above a flooded volcano, expensive and…
The Santorini bus network is cheap, useful and much more limited than visitors expect, and understanding both halves of that sentence is the difference between a holiday that works without a car and one that quietly misses half the island.…
Buying Santorini ferry tickets looks simple until you meet the three things the booking sites do not tell you: the island has two ports and they are nothing alike, high speed sailings are cancelled by wind far more often than…
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…