Bunnygoespop in Santorini (Greece)

I always imagined Santorini to be hyper touristic, expensive, and like an amusement park. It was indeed all that but there was a certain charm in its rugged landscape, with the bluest of seas, and it’s narrow and windy streets and stairs, that we ended up loving it.

Our start wasn’t that great though. We were stranded overnight in Athens and when we reached the island, our suitcase didn’t. We were left with no clothes, no baby food, and only 2 diapers. But thanks to the gazillions of tourist ships, we could get clothes (all shops had the same merchandise anyway) though no underwear – one of the many instances where we felt real people didn’t live here.

We watched an amazing moonrise (no pics though) and sunrise from our Airbnb. The sea shimmered in the moonlight and shone all yellow as the sun rose. For some minutes, we could forget all the unpleasant airline business.

Pics of the village we were staying at–>

During the day, we climbed up to the active volcano in the middle of the Caldera and swam in the hot springs right below it, which didn’t feel warm at all until we started swimming back in the “cold” (in comparison) water (~24dgC). Stepped onto the neighboring island of Therassia (not special at all) and watched the sunset from the sea.

The next day we checked out THE most famous part of Santorini, Oia. It was paved with marble, wannabe Instagram influencers were getting their photoshoots, souvenir shop owners were haughtier and sold the same merchandise for twice the price, coolies were carrying suitcases of rich Americans, and one could look into the “private” pools of the hyper expensive properties on the cliff side – but it was all so pretty!

For the next part of our trip, we packed our bags and moved to another part of the island and I am very glad that we did because it felt like a new destination altogether. Painting of the view from the terrace

We watched the sunset from the lighthouse at the tip of the island (the other tip being Oia). Almost everywhere online it is recommended to watch the sunset from Oia but Swiss bunny with his superior direction skills had already predicted that only a small small sliver of Oia would actually see the sunset! This was confirmed by a local, who said people were now moving to the lighthouse, which gives a completely unrestricted view of the sun going right into the sea! It was very busy but quite magnificent.

The next morning we checked out the red beach, the black beach and some obscure beach which we ended up while looking for the white beach. The black beach was a quieter affair than the red beach, where we saw at least 15 boats right come into the bay all at once, and the beach getting full already at 10 am (thankfully we had arrived at 930am)! The walk along the cliff and the views were nice though.

Tip: do not come here on a boat

That evening we went to Oia again and walked in a queue like ants with all the other thousands of tourists and this was not even peak season! Tip: do not go to Oia in the evening.

The next day, we checked out the Caldera beach which was a bit littered with trash but it was very quiet and had a nice spot to paint.

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That afternoon, we didn’t know what to do. So Swiss bunny said, lets go on top of the hill (so swiss of him) we could see from our terrace and we discovered THE BEST SPOT IN SANTORINI with an almost 300 dg view. It was just amazing and apparently not in the tourists books yet.

Overall our trip was a bit like what baby bunny might have felt in his stroller – bumpy and with many many stairs, but also exciting and with many things to see. Will we ever want to go there again? No, but this one time was worth it.