Greece's romantic register is ancient and specific in equal measure. Santorini's caldera sunset, watched from the Oia clifftop with wine and the Aegean below, has been photographed a million times and loses nothing in person — the light at that hour over that view is genuinely extraordinary. The sailing route between the Cyclades islands, spending nights anchored in small harbours and swimming from the boat, is the honeymoon format that Greece does better than anywhere. A wedding in a whitewashed church above a cliff, with the sea visible from the ceremony, is increasingly popular and entirely justified by the setting. Crete adds Minoan archaeological depth to beach and mountain landscape that extends the romantic register beyond the obvious islands. It really hits differently.