A closer look
Greece features the island of Santorini, globally recognized for its stunning whitewashed buildings, blue-domed churches, and jaw-dropping sunsets over the caldera. What the postcards fail to show is the grueling reality of climbing hundreds of steep, donkey-dung-covered stairs in blistering heat just to reach your overpriced boutique hotel. By the time the famous sunset actually occurs, you are sandwiched between three hundred other sweaty tourists, all violently jockeying for the perfect angle to livestream a giant ball of gas dipping below the horizon. It is a beautiful destination where the romance is heavily subsidized by your willingness to be treated like cattle in a very picturesque, sun-drenched corral
