We’ve all seen the pictures. Beautiful shots of white buildings with pretty blue domes, the narrow streets of the town of Oia, with its many cute stores and fancy restaurants and terraces, luring tourists to the northern tip of the famous Greek island with the promise of an idyllic sunset over the Aegean Sea. Romantic? Yes. Realistic? Not so much! I was one of those tourists rushing at the end of a long day of sea travel, trying to make my way among hundreds (maybe thousands)