Santorini Is the Prettiest Place On Earth, Fo Realz

You know how sometimes you just have a feeling you're going to love something before you ever experience it for yourself? That is how I felt about Santorini. And I was totally right. It was hands-down the most beautiful place I've ever been.

For starters, the landscape was unbelievable. One side of the island sort of twists around a volcano in the center (the island was created from the lava), and then there are also little islands off on the other side of the volcano. Y'all: it totally looks like Neverland. It is seriously beyond magical, especially when there was a south wind bringing in low-hanging clouds and mist. These pictures suck at doing it justice.


Although some parts of the island are flatter than others, we stayed in the steepest, tippy top village called Imerovigli. It was so high that when we first walked around figuring out which hotel to stay in, I was worried I was going to fall off the face of the earth. Luckily I soon got over that fear and we found the most beautiful little hotel with rooms available. 

(Although Spiros had planned the skeleton of the trip, he insisted on leaving our lodging up in the air until we got there in order to "barter" since it was the off season. Originally we planned to go around to a few places and find the best deal, but it was hot and some of us might have been a tiny bit whiny and then fell in love with the first place we went, and voila we had ourselves a gorgeous room overlooking the volcano.) 

The Altana, an old shipping family's mansion turned into a hotel, was hands-down the most adorable place in the world. Even better was that it was run by twin brothers named Christos and Marios (who I referred to as Mario and Luigi - and OMG Marios had a perfect Mario mustache and wore red, life was great) who went out of there way to make everything as comfortable as possible. They offered great dining recommendations, beach tips, and delicious authentic Greek breakfasts that included veggies from their garden. My heart skips a beat just thinking about it.

Each day of our stay there was perfect. We ate, we beached, we ate, we napped, we snorkled, we ate, we explored, we ate. It was sensory overload to the fullest, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures if you're interested...