How to Have a Fabulous 2 Days in Santorini, Greece

I’ve been going through my photos of Santorini, remembering how happy I was to be somewhere I’d seen so much about before. To be honest, I’d never actually read much about Santorini, still haven’t, but it’s the views and the photos that sell the place.

I went in June this year with Travel Talk Tours on their 3 Greece Island Explorer trip. It was the perfect way to visit Santorini, Mykonos, Athens and Ios on one trip, as they organised all the accommodation and boat transfers so all I had to do was admire.

Little bit about Santorini

Along with Mykonos, Santorini is one of the most popular and most expensive islands in Greece. But you only need to look at these photos to see why that’s justified, or at least, allowed.

It’s the sunset in Oia in Santorini that brings the island it’s credibility and yearning tourists. As the sun goes down it swathes the houses in a beautiful light, which is exactly the photo everyone there is trying to capture. Unfortunately that means it can be difficult to get that perfect shot, person free.

The first night we arrived in Santorini on the Travel Talk Tour we were given an orientation and went to look at the most popular part of the island, where the restaurants were crazy prices and the bars looked out over the Aegean Sea, infinity pools and all.

Santorini is crescent shaped thanks to a huge volcano that exploded thousands of years ago. If you want to visit you should go soon because it’s predicted that the volcano, still bubbling undersea, will pile up and fill in, sometime in the next few thousand years.

Quad biking

One of the best things to do in Santorini was the quad biking. We rented bikes from the centre of the town and took them up to the highest point. Riding up was pretty nerve wracking, especially when there was a vehicle coming the other way.

The quad biking was awesome. Well, my quad bike was rubbish and I flagged behind everyone getting up the hill, just like in Mykonos (is it me?),  but I guess at least I got to admire the view a little more.

When we finally got up there, the view was amazing, you could see for miles around. I’d definitely