Koloumpos

Koloumpos lies on Santorini's north-eastern edge, a secluded shore of black sand and volcanic rock. It takes its name from Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano north-east of Santorini, the largest of some twenty cones. In its eruption of 1650 a cloud of poisonous gas reached Santorini, where some fifty to seventy people and many animals died. My pictures show a whitewashed terrace with dark doors, a lantern and a curved parapet, palms and bougainvillea giving onto a stone-walled lane. From a clifftop I look down on surf breaking on dark sand, with a white building on the headland. I stand with arms outstretched on bluffs above a hazy sea, and speak to the camera in a straw hat.

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