An Honest Answer for Couples Visiting Santorini One of the questions couples often ask when planning a honeymoon in Santorini is whether they should stay in Oia or Imerovigli. There is a reason the answer isn’t obvious. Both villages sit
I have never been very good at thinking of these houses as “rooms”. I know that, technically, this is what they are now. They have numbers, reservations, check-in times and all the other practical things that come with welcoming guests.
I still remember our very first guest. Not one of the first. The first. We had opened our doors only a few weeks earlier, in June 2021. It was our first season, and a rather unusual time to begin. The
If we have done our job properly, you will never see most of it. You will open the door and find the house ready. The bed will be made. The towels will be fresh. Everything will be where it should
There are many things you can read before your first trip to Santorini: where to watch the sunset, which villages to visit, where to swim and what to book in advance. All useful, of course. But after living here and
If you stay in House 2, you may notice that the pictures on its walls share the same hand. They are not there because they matched the furniture, or because I was looking for something to fill an empty wall.
It Depends on Which Santorini You Want to Meet If you search for the best time of year to visit Santorini, you will usually find a fairly simple answer: May and June, or September and October. There is some sense
Old houses remember things in strange ways. Sometimes in their walls, sometimes in a piece of furniture that nobody ever thought to throw away — and sometimes in a drawer. There was an old buffet in the house when my
A Few Things Worth Thinking About Before You Bring the Ring Santorini is an obvious place to propose. The caldera, the sunsets, the small white villages above the sea — you don’t need much help making the setting beautiful. Keeping
A Romantic Escape Based in Imerovigli Three days in Santorini may not sound like very long, but for a honeymoon I think they can be just enough — provided you resist the temptation to fill every available hour. Santorini has
