Warning: This is yet another Santorini post from a set I had squirrelled away before this whole working lark began. I am beginning to feel like I am getting into some kind of routine though, and there are plenty of posts on other subjects coming up – promise! But for now, if you will […]
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Vineyards, Best Restaurants and Nectarines – Santorini
It’s easy to spot fields full of the strange flat vines that produce the grapes for Santorini’s wines, they are everywhere. Forget any eye-scrunching, mouth drying experiences you might have had with Greek wine in the past, as along with cherry tomatoes, fava beans, white aubergines and pistachios, wine is what the island is growing […]
Ancient Thira, Lizards and Ahmoudi Bay
The journey up the side of Messavouno Mountain to reach the start of Ancient Thira is not for the faint hearted, especially if you’re walking. Thanks to the Frog, we could cut out the most gruelling part (seriously if you are doing the public transport thing, you might want to organise a taxi instead of using […]
The Frog, Oia and Akrotiri – Santorini
It seems that as a family, we are not able to just sit and relax on any kind of holiday, and within a couple of hours of trying to do just that on the first day, we were itching to get out and explore… The morning was spent navigating Santorini’s bus system, starting with Fira […]
Sunsets with John – Santorini
Santorini has to be up there in terms of the Planet’s most famous sunset view settings, and it proved just as spectacular as promised, night after night. The first sunset we witnessed just up the road from us in Firostefani saw much craning of necks as the majority of the crowd around us attempted to […]