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Clouds still linger over Europe saving its summer
Improved jab rollouts and vaccine passports have lifted hopes the region can salvage its tourism season, but could it be too late?
3 May 2021 • 5:00am
With its rugged clifftops, clear Mediterranean waters and black lava beaches, Santorini is an island paradise just a four-hour flight from Gatwick Airport.
But for most of the last year, that journey has seemed as impossible as a trip to the other side of the world.
Hopes are now high for a sizzling summer recovery as restrictions ease and millions of Covid jabs go into arms. Santorini’s luxury hotels, restaurants and yachts gear up for a big tourism reopening later this month.
Our 20 favourite Mediterranean islands – and how likely it is you can visit each one this year
A love affair with your favourite island is that rare thing – a holiday romance that will stand the test of time
There is a certain magic to a holiday on a sun-drenched island
What is it about islands? There’s a certain magic to them that has always drawn artists, poets and writers, who have set history’s greatest love stories on the islands of the Mediterranean ever since Aphrodite met Adonis in Cyprus.
It’s easy to see why. Anything can happen on an island. There’s an unequivocal romance about being adrift at sea, spirited away from the rest of the world to a refuge of beauty and luminous light, of quiet coves and clear mornings when the air is sweet with thyme and jasmine, and the early sun throws spangles across the water.