Sandra wanted to see Santorini because it’s the island that everyone talks about. A quick look online found a page that said if you were going to spend 10 days in the Greek Islands, you should spend half of them on Santorini because of the views, the wine, the volcano etc. We thought that two nights would be enough, but it turned out we were wrong.

Half an hour after arriving, we were in a traffic jam on the switchback climb from the port to the rest of the island. We had been confronted by a rude bus driver and had seen suspicious looking guys checking out all the tourists’ bags left unattended in the bus’s storage. We looked at each other and said, ‘I think one night will do.’

Our decision wasn’t changed by the prices of the hotels or by being accosted by someone outside every restaurant on the way down the street. We were happy to book tickets out the next day and to eat at a small, unassuming restaurant with fantastic food a little further from the tourist area. Even here, the owner treated the staff poorly despite them being very capable.

The main redeeming experience of our night on Santorini was the open air cinema. Unlike the grand stand on Sydney Harbour or the sprawling picnic in Centennial Park, this was a more intimate environment inside a walled garden. We highly recommend seeing The Joker, and if you have to go to Santorini, take some time out at the cinema.