Dress - River Island

Shoes - New Look

Sunglasses - Ray-Ban

First of all, I hope you're not too bored of my Santorini posts yet as there are still a few more to come, I think I am subconsciously dragging out these posts as long as possible so I can relive all the amazing memories that were made there, ha ha!  Secondly, please excuse my post pool hair in these photos, it is a state!

When I was packing for Santorini I was in two minds about what to take with me, with it being so early on in the season hot weather was not guaranteed.  So when I saw this dress in River Island it seemed like the perfect fit for my holiday.  It is made of a crepe like material making it a little bit thicker and the longer kimono style sleeves would keep the chill off my arms.  Luckily for us though the weather was hot and sunny everyday with barely a cloud in the sky and still I was glad I had bought this dress.  As the day of the wedding I was so preoccupied with other things... helping the bride to get ready, doing her hair, getting myself ready etc. that putting suncream on completely slipped my mind.  Luckily my bridesmaid dress covered most of me apart from the low back that left me feeling a little sore and red.  Making this dress the perfect cover up for the next day, the relaxed kimono style of this dress makes it so lightweight and comfy.  It sheltered my burnt back from the sun and didn't rub on it all.  I really love the floral print on this dress and I think it is so versatile too, just add some heels and jewellery and you're ready for a night out.  They also do a yellow version which is super pretty and I'm trying to get my hands on in my size as I think these style dresses are so easy to wear.

On our first day in Santorini we went to a little coastal village called Kamari where the bride and groom had organised a wine tasting for us on the beach front.  We went to a small winery called Gaia Wines, where we got to taste their 3 white wines that they produce and their dessert wine.  We were first taken into the winery where it was explained to us how the wine was produced and a brief history of the building, which also used to be a tomato factory and a nightclub!  Then we sat at our table by the beach for the best part, the wine tasting!  It was such a beautiful setting and really relaxing, being able to sip wine whilst looking out to the sea.  Before tasting each wine we were told a little bit more about it's flavours and how the wine was created.  It was also explained to us how the grapes were grown in such warm climates thanks to the minerals in the volcanic soil.  The one thing that stuck in my head though, coming from rainy old England, is that they only get approximately 400mm of rainfall each year!!  We probably get that here in a couple of days!  Just another reason to love Santorini...

Kimono - Bershka

Top - New Look

Shorts - Dorothy Perkins

Sandals - Topshop

Sunglasses - Ray-Ban

Bag - Marc Jacobs

Before we left for Santorini I was umm-ing and aah-ing over what to take for weeks, one day I'd look at the weather and it was forecast to be in the early twenties and sunny and then the next I'd look and it would have changed to cloudy and 16°c.  As it was so early in the season it wasn't guaranteed to be hot, so I had to pack accordingly and when I saw this Bershka kimono at only £14.99 I thought it'd make it the perfect cover up for those chillier days.  I love the pretty floral pattern on it and the longer length makes it the perfect cover up for shorts.  Speaking of shorts, I'm loving all the suede around at the minute with the 70's revival this summer and was so happy when I rediscovered these shorts hanging in my wardrobe that I hadn't worn for a long time.  I knew I kept them for a reason!  I just think they make a nice change from the typical denim shorts I usually spend my holidays in.

This is probably the only day from the whole holiday that I wore my hair down.  The main reason is I'm not a big fan of having my hair down and straight, it just looks so limp and for some reason my hair just did not like the greek water.  After washing, it was so hard to work with and just wouldn't hold any style.  My hair isn't the best at holding curls anyway but they usually hold pretty well with my Babyliss curling wand but about an hour after these photos were taken my hair was completely straight again.  Does anybody else have this problem when they go on holiday?  I'd love to hear if you have any holiday hair tips.

If you follow my blog you'll know that I recently went to Santorini to be bridesmaid at my best friend's wedding.  So the first thing I'm going to do is apologise for the next few posts where you will no doubt be inundated with our antics on the beautiful island.  I have completely fallen in love with this little picturesque Greek island, so needless to say I have hundreds of photos but have decided to separate them into separate posts so as not to bore you.

We stayed in a lovely quaint little place called Aghios Artemios Traditional Houses, a lovely little family run hotel where the staff were so friendly and helpful, they just couldn't do enough for you.  The rooms were just beautiful and are perfect little restored white caves built into the hills.  I just love how this hotel is just everything I imagine when I think of Greece... white walls, little blue doors, blue church roofs... it was just perfect.  Also as it is a fairly small place and as there were 25 of us we had the whole complex to ourselves, which was lovely.  We arrived fairly late at night and the staff put on a delicious Greek meze for us.  I have always loved Greek food but the food we had throughout this trip was just amazing!  I am determined to try and learn to recreate some of the wonderful dishes we had now I'm back home.

I have lots more to share with you from our trip but I thought I'd start with where we stayed, as it was just perfect and is quite central in Santorini making pretty much anywhere on the island easy to get to.  If you're ever looking for somewhere to stay in Santorini I cannot recommend this place enough.  We're already planning on going back.