Santorini at it's Best

Santorini at it's Best
Santorini was formed by a Volcanic Explosion

Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Santorini a unique island

Santorini(orThíra) is 
Santorini at 30,000 feet
Crescent-shaped,it's unique in the Aegean, it is actually made up by a number of islands Thíra, Asproníssi, Thirassiá, Nea Kaméni and Palea in Cyclades, it's the southernmost part
The Santorini islands are still a active volcano 3,600 years ago the last big eruption occurred (during the Minoan Age), when igneous material (mainly ash, pumice and lava stones) covered the three islands (Thirassiá, Thíra and Asproníssi). 
There was a previous prehistoric civilization which was destroyed by the eruptionl , evidence of which was found during the excavations of a settlement at Akrotíri. 
These days Santorini is increasingly becoming a luxury location visited by Cruise ships, it has some fantastic hotels  and is well worth choosing as your Summer holiday destination.

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Holiday Airline Seat Pitches flying from UK


On the sunshine Leisure routes you will be suprised at different economy seat pitches, most people don't check before they fly, but with a little knowledge comes power



AirX    on the     B737500  is 31 inches  Book  Loloflights.com Flights to Greece frm Manchester & Bournemouth
EasyJet on the       A319   is      29 inchs    Book  Easyjet.com
ThomasCook         B757200 is  29-30 inches  Book  www.flythomascook.com
ThomsonAirlines     B737800 is  28 inches  Book Flytui.com
ThomsonAirlines     B757200 is  28 inches   Book Flytui.com
British Airways       Various    is  30-31 inches  BA.com
B757-200 mainstay of Holiday companies
for the last 30 years.
only 120 seats in the AirX B737-500.

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Friday, 12 February 2016

Who flys to Santorini (Thira)


Companies with direct flights to Thira Santorini

 Easyjet.com fly's Daily from London Gatwick and Saturdays, Mondays & Wednesdays from Manchester

 Thomas Cook Airlines fly's on Saturdays and Tuesdays from Manchester

 Norwegian flys on Saturday,Sunday, Monday & Wednesday direct, but also fly's via Copenhagen
AirX B737-500 120y

 vueling.com operates via Rome from Manchester on Mondays and Fridays and from Gatwick via Rome on Wed,Thur, Fri and Sundays

 Loloflights flys on Wedsnesdays from Manchester  on a AirX Luxury B737500 with only 120y seats and a 31inch seat pitch, Free in-flight snack and lolo are offering a free baggage offering Free Baggage link   free 15kgs bag per person  www.loloflights.com 
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Santorini's History


Santorini is unique by the fact of it’s history, 1600 BC there was a tremendous Volcanic explosion that left the island with the remnants of that explosion and the outer edges of the Volcano, it buried the island beneath layers of pozzuolona siliceous volcanic ash) The explosion was so great it ended the Minoan Civilisation in Crete to the south of the island. There had been Human habitation on Santorini for thousands of years before, but all habitation ended for approximately 300 years returning 1300 BC.

Herodotus, called the island Strongyle (the Round one).it was also called Kalliste (the Fairest one). it was settled by the Phoenicians and the Lacedaemonians who gave the island the Theras named after their leader..

In the 9th century B.C. Thera, became an important point on the communication route between the East and the West of that era and adopted the Phoenician alphabet for writing the Greek language.

In about 620-30 B.C., Therans colonised the north coast of the African continent (Now Libya) where they founded their Theran colony Cyrene, In the 5th and 4th century BC) Thera played an important role during the Peloponnesian War when it sided with Sparta, and became an important base for Alexander the Great where he launched a number of successful campaigns because of it’s geographic strategic position. Also because of it’s strategic position it was valued by the Roman Empire, Christianity reached the island in the 4th century AD.