Four Private Hours on Santorini: Oia, Firostefani, the Heart Rock

Four hours, a private vehicle, and a local driver whose job is the four of you rather than a coachload. It is built for people with limited time: cruise passengers with a sailing to catch, families who will not spend a whole day on a bus, couples who want the photographs without the queue. Oia is the clifftop village everyone comes for, with whitewashed houses, blue domes and marble alleys running down towards the caldera. The Three Bells of Fira, at Firostefani, is the church that ends up on the postcards, with its bell tower and the sea a long way below. The Akrotiri lighthouse sits on the southern tip, where the cliffs drop away and the Aegean runs out ahead. It is quieter down there than anywhere on the northern rim. The Heart of Santorini is a rock on the caldera edge worn into the shape of a heart, and very few visitors find it. Pick-up and drop-off are included, and the vehicle is modern and air-conditioned.