Holidays in Santorini
I hasten to share my experience of holidays in Santorini. I really want to protect future travelers from the mistakes that I made. I went to Santorini for 2 days (I spent my vacation in Crete). It is VERY difficult to buy tickets to Santorini from Crete on a catamaran that takes only 3 hours on certain dates in the summer. Even in two weeks, with great difficulty, we managed to find tickets for other days, and not those that were planned in advance and only in business class. Sam Island is very beautiful. I will not write what you need to see there, because almost everything is beautiful. I'd rather write what NOT to do. In the capital city of Fira is the old port. In guidebooks and reviews they write that 3 roads lead there: funicular, donkey and pedestrian. So. . . NEVER, HEAR, NEVER WALK THE PEDESTRIAN ROAD. This is the same road that herds (or as they are properly called) of dirty stinking donkeys walk. If you still decide to go this way, know that you will have a long descent (or ascent, which is even more likely) along an unrealistically smelly road, paved (sorry for being direct) with donkey shit . . om (fresh and not very). And in Santorini, an excursion to the nearest volcanic islands is quite popular. I can’t say that it’s worth going to her. I'll tell you my impressions, and then it's up to you. The volcano is quite high. I drop you off on an island that is formed from black volcanic rock (so imagine how it heats up during the heat). It takes quite a long time to walk to the volcano itself and, what is most unpleasant, there are no signs there, although there is only one way, but it’s not very pleasant when you go and don’t understand at all when the volcano will be (if it will be at all). And it's not hard to walk by without noticing it. So if you, like me, expect to see a crater with boiling and bubbling lava, then you will be greatly disappointed. The local volcano is just a few small greenish holes in the wall of the pit, from which a barely noticeable smelly smoke rises. So decide for yourself - to go "to the volcano" or not. Well, the rest of the island left only positive impressions. I especially recommend going to the city of Perissa and watching the sunset in Oia. And yet, I do not advise you to buy local "souvenir attractions" favu beans and sun-dried tomatoes on the island itself. In Crete, for example, fava in a supermarket costs 2 euros (instead of 7-8, which they ask for in Santorini), and sun-dried tomatoes will cost you 2-3 times cheaper (and they can also be in oil with spices) .
Happy travels!