A few years ago I only had heard about Santorini as a tourist atraction, but each passing year I find Greece - other places of Greece - as interesting as other europeans destinations. Just a few days I watched Before Midnight (again) and watched recently How to have sex and other movies filmed in Greece. And now I ran into your post and I'm really considering going there.
Do you mind me asking where are you from? I mean, in your experience, Stavros is a city for an english speaker to go on vacation? I don't know any greek and I ususally travel by myself, do you think I'm gonna be fine over there to interact with the locals?
Thank you for sharing.