Last May I spent a week on this wonderful island with my girlfriend. And between a slice of feta with sesame and honey, some salad and a portion of moussaka, I shot some digestive photos.

One thing you understand immediately is that this island is completely organized for tourism: hotels, B&B, campings, restaurants, car-rentals, motorcycle-rentals, quad-rentals, boat-rentals, everything-rentals, and if I continue this way I know you’ll stop reading it all, so I end it here.

Fortunately, at this period of the year we came across a negligible amount of tourists, most of the time the beaches were almost empty and a lot of places were still closed or under renovation. Santorini was finishing getting made up.

Here there are no traces of the well-known greek economic crisis that we’ve been reading for years now in the daily newspapers around the world.

Even the old men doing business transporting tourists on the back of their donkeys earn more money than you, considering that at the end of the season they receive a percentage from the income of the cableway to prevent them from a considerable loss in their benefits due to its construction.

Tourism also means souvenir-pictures, which around us in our ego-era means selfies. Selfies call for spots, and Santorini has plenty of them. With its beautiful panoramas and the small houses with swimming pools on the overhangs of the island each angle is pretty to photograph. Some places recommend a stop for souvenir photos, in other locations you need to wait your turn in line to take the picture, plus you need to look for small spaces between fashion shoots and young married asian couples with their wedding gowns.

For this reason the island has bans for photos: you can’t walk on the roofs, you can’t take pictures of kids close to schools, you can’t use drones and you can’t walk on some of the streets where, I believe, live the locals.

Speaking of spots, I would recommend one, one of the few places where I’ve seen no one take pictures: the smoking area of the airport. This way you are ready to leave again for a new destination.