Santorini · Nightlife

Erythrou Stavrou, the lane running north from the main square, holds most of the island's late bars inside a couple of hundred metres. It does not get going until after midnight and then runs to the small hours in season.

Open-air cinema in a garden at Kamari, screening films in English with Greek subtitles through the summer. Doors at 20:30, film at 21:30, and it takes no reservations, so you turn up, buy a drink and sit under the trees.

The two black-sand towns on the east and south coast carry the island's relaxed drinking: beach bars that slide from sunbeds into the evening, cheaper than anything on the caldera rim, and a younger crowd around the Perissa hostels.

Oia's evening is the sunset and then dinner. Once the crowd breaks up the village goes quiet fast, and there is little to do afterwards, so treat it as a meal rather than a night out.

Local buses all radiate through Fira and stop running well before the bars close, and taxis on Santorini are notoriously scarce and expensive. Decide how you are getting back to Kamari, Perissa or Oia before you start drinking, not after.