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Santorini, Greece

Santorini, a Place to Find Peace

May 15, 2026

Trip Highlight

Greece is my favorite place on earth. I say that as a woman who has watched the sun set over the Aegean holding a champagne cocktail served in a juice glass.

Santorini taught me something no calendar ever did. It taught me how to be free. Free to wander little lanes that all end in blue, to become a regular at the sunset bar, to let a whole afternoon go by doing nothing at all.

Come for the white walls and blue domes. Meet the person you become in Santorini.

Moments from the trip

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Beauty and dignity in every direction. I felt so grateful to be here, a place to find peace. "Whitewashed buildings perched on steep cliffs overlooking the Aegean Sea" indeed.

See more through my eyes

A few more glimpses from this trip.

A narrow white lane leading down to the sea — Every lane seems to end in blue. I wandered them slowly, in no hurry to arrive anywhere at all.

White rooftops and a pool above the caldera

The village clinging to the cliff edge, looking up the coast

A blue-domed church against the sky

A white bell tower and blue dome

A quiet terrace with a wooden table overlooking the caldera — The terrace, with a table for one

A small plunge pool on a shaded white terrace — A little plunge pool on the terrace. Cool water, warm stone, the sea just beyond.

A white chapel along the cliff path

The steep rocky trail along the caldera ridge — Hiking across the steep terrain.

A terrace restaurant with the town tumbling to the sea beyond — Dinner with a view

Sunset flaring over the village rooftops

Sunbeams breaking through clouds over the sea

The vast covered excavation of Akrotiri — The excavation stretches on and on. An entire city, patiently emerging from the ash.

Painted Bronze Age pottery recovered at Akrotiri — Elegant pottery, painted thousands of years ago and somehow still full of life.

A plaster cast of an intricately carved table from Akrotiri — An intricate table, kept whole by the very ash that buried it.

A catamaran sailing past a volcanic headland — Sailing the caldera as the afternoon light turned soft.

A whitewashed chapel high on the steep volcanic cliffs — The chapel on the cliffs

Kayakers paddling beneath dark volcanic cliffs — Kayakers beneath the volcanic cliffs, tiny against all that dark stone.

Sunset over the Aegean from the deck of a catamaran — Sunset over the Aegean, best seen from the water.

Laurie at sunset above the caldera — One more sunset, savoured slowly.

White rooftops above the caldera at golden hour — Golden hour over the rooftops, when all the whitewash turns warm and honey-coloured.

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