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Akrotiri (red beach) chapel.
Santorini is the most popular island in Greece.
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Mesa Gonia
The local slogan is "More churches than houses.."
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Fira beach
..more donkeys than people...
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Ascent from Fira beach
(sometimes lots more donkeys than people)
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Ether Club, Exo Gonia
... and more wine than water.
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Classsic Santorini Caldera sunset
But the sunsets over the western cliffs are what draw the crowds.
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Santorini nightlights for everyone!
Where there's crowds there's kitsch.
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Fira
Off season the 14 villages belong to the locals.
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Fira - path to Phirostefani
An unimaginable violence that underscores the tranquility of the island today...
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Oia beach
When humans eventually returned, those too poor to build fortified...
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Oia
Nowadays the accomodations are more refined but still charmingly simple.
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Perissa
For all the pride in the very ancient Cycladic friezes and pottery recovered...
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Fira
The white buildings contrast against the blue water that rushed in to...
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Fira
That was about 2,500 years ago.
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Behind the Panagia Papabdi cathedral
Despite the likely eventuality of another erruption, Santorini keeps building.
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Oia beach
Albeit intermittently. These bags of cement were left out in the rain all...
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Oia
The northern town of Oia is the most pituresque with Fira now the commercial...
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Oia path to Finikia
Cycladic architecture features this peaked chimney (usually without someone...
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Fira
And like much everything else, is repeatedly painted white.
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Oia's Armeni beach
With some notable exceptions.
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Armeni beach
Santorini never quite recovered from the loss of its fishing fleet after the...
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Kamari
Painting and building are never-ending enterprises, perhaps in an...
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Kamari (Black beach)
Even as a visitor, one feels one ought to join in.
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Land of the gods
Lawrence Durrell wrote that Greeks have dreamed the dream of life better than...
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Runaway cat
But when I die I want to be reincarnated and come back....
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Eastern Europe
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