Tag: Santorini
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Exploring Santorini’s Caldera and Nea Kameni Volcano
The Greek island of Santorini is enchanting thanks to its sapphire-blue water, snow-white buildings, and multicolored cliffs that resemble French mille-feuille pastries. Aside from its phenomenal landscapes, this Cycladic island has a dramatic geological history since one of the most powerful volcanoes in recorded times erupted here more than 3,600 years ago. Archaeologists believe that Santorini…
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Photo du Jour: Sail Away – Santorini
Sailboats glide along Santorini’s caldera near the village of Oia.
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Scenes from Santorini
Often touted as the most picturesque village on the Greek island of Santorini, Oia looks like a terraced wedding cake perched upon the island’s craggy northwestern edges. With its stunning views of the caldera and surrounding islands, blue and white church domes, and lack of power lines to clutter its panoramas, Oia is a shutterbug’s…
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Santorini Wine: From an Eruption to Effervescence
Each year, nearly half a million visitors flock to the striking island of Santorini. Many come to the legendary Greek island in search of black and red beaches, cool-blue infinity pools, and rugged cliffs speckled with whitewashed buildings. And many, I suspect, are unaware of the island’s intriguing and violent geological history, which shaped its tantalizing cuisine…
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Sunrise, Sunset on Santorini
Santorini days are bookmarked by some of the most majestic sunrises and sunsets I have ever seen. During the ten marvelous days we spent on this legendary Greek island, our sole task was to decide how to spend the time in between. And so we filled our agenda with a Santorini cooking class, learning how…
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Photo du Jour: The Santorini Donkey
A donkey, decked out in colorful beads and an evil-eye amulet, awaits the day’s passengers on the stairs leading up to the village of Fira, on the island of Santorini. When visitors arrive to Santorini’s Old Port via cruise ship or boat, they have three ways to make it up to the town of Fira:…
