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A unique musical performance on board a vessel in the Caldera of Santorini during sunset time and later until 22.30! The concert will take place on Wednesday, August 10th on board F/B “Nissos Thirassia”.

Greek folk-rock music with

Konstantinos Pelekanos-guitar, vocals
Christoforos. Gavallas-guitar
Lukas Kerkyras-double bass
Nikos Souliotis-percussions

and
Vasilis Panagiotidis-guitar, harmonica, vocals
Takis Tzounakos-piano, vocals
Giannis Varvarigos-lute

We just launched our new wine tasting session at MySantorini.com. With 1-hour duration, it takes places within an underground cave in Fira square.  You can try 4 different Santorinian wines, learn about the traditional wine making techniques and get a lot of information by our enologist!

You can read more at Santorini wine tasting article.

More info to come soon!

Demystify Santorinian recipes, taste local wines and learn how they combine together to form the perfect dinner. Fresh materials, good olive-oil, spices and strong wine are the essentials. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 18.00 we offer 3-hour cooking classes at the premises of Argyros Estate. Along with our chef, we will prepare a Santorinian salad (small tomatoes, caper, onion, olives, cucumber, olive-oil and we will cook fava (split peas) beans, fried tomato balls. For main dish, we will cook fish fillet with traditional tomato sauce (cod fish with tomato sauce and garlic) or Pork with fava beans (split peas). The food will be accompanied by 3 different local wines. Price per person is at 50 Euros, more info and bookings at MySantorini.com cooking class page.

This a really nice, brand new video for Santorini island! It has been filmed in summer of 2010 in very high quality of production. Some known landscapes and other hidden treasures of Santorini have been beautifully mixed along with music and fast transition effects. Pelican Travel and www.mysantorini.com has sponsored the tour section of the film. Enjoy!

Freedom from Vasili on Vimeo.

Today we launched one new page at our site www.santorinivillas.net. It is all about a Latest Availabities anouncement board! It can be accessed very easily from all the pages of the site and gives you information on new vacancies or last moment availabilities for our villas. Each availability is presented with the exact dates of stay, but even if this does not fall exactly within your program, don’t hesitate to ask for a quote! Maybe, another similar property is available for you and  our staff will give you a good range of options to choose among!

Germanwings is extending its flights from Cologne, in order to cover interesting european destinations starting by three new connections the coming summer. Taking into account the high tourism traffic of European destinations, like Santorini, German Wings has also included other new destinations, like Madrid and Copenhagen.

Starting from May 2010 Germanwings will fly to Santorini once a week (every Saturday) by an Airbus A319.

112 is the phone number to call emergency services throughout the EU, from fixed or mobile phones, free of charge.

A single emergency number 112 that is accessible for all emergencies and to all people living and travelling in the EU is easy to remember. As such, promoting the use of 112 helps to save lives. As European citizens are increasingly travelling to other countries, for business or pleasure, there is a need for a single number, identical across the EU, to call in an emergency. Especially for travelers, safety in emergencies is the other side of the coin of the single market and the freedoms it offers.

The Directive further detailed requirements concerning 112:

• Free of charge: Member States must ensure that users of fixed and mobile telephones, including payphones, are able to call 112 free of charge.

• No discrimination: 112 calls must be appropriately answered and handled, irrespective of whether 112 or other national emergency numbers are dialed.

• Caller location: Member States must also ensure that emergency services are able to establish the location of the person calling 112. The ability to locate the caller in case of an emergency may be of great significance in a situation where the person is unable to state his or her location, which can happen particularly when calling from mobile phones or while travelling abroad.

This telephone number is also accessible for travelers that are in Santorini – Greece and are in a kind of emergency.

Source: europa.eu

A fantastic villa in Pyrgos Santorini with magnificent view and remarkable facilities. Villa Fabrica is set in an old factory and can be split into two totally separate and private villas, or hired as a whole.

Villa Fabrica has large outdoor spaces with two impressive pool terraces and various other alfresco arrangements.  The floors were painstakingly created by a local craftsman, who mixed colors and cement to create the beautiful matte finish floors throughout. Read the rest of this entry »

We are happy to share with you today a new feature at our website. You can leave your reviews for the Santorini tours and activities you have joined or read other customers review. We believe that it is very important to have your feedback published in our website, so other visitors can read it and help them decide which tour fits better their needs.

You can review the tours and activities that we offer and tell people why you had nice time or not. What you would suggest to other visitors and some useful tips.

Have you been to one of our tours or activities? So, be one of the first travelers  to review!

The last month of our organized tours is here. So, for this period of time and the rest of November 2009 you can book the Volcano and Hot Springs tour at 11:00 – 14:00.
The tour starts from the old port of Fira at 11:00 and you visit the Volcano for 1 ½ hours and swim at the Hot Springs for 50 minutes. It’s a classic tour for those who want to visit the famous Volcano of Santorini and feel the beneficial effects of Hot Springs. Read the rest of this entry »