Greek Island lover here (to the point my wife and I were married on Santorini two and a half weeks after 9/11/01 but that's another story). We haven't been back in 4 years but every time beforehand we were greeted with signs at the Santorini airport telling one that photography wasn't much of a welcome activity. Seems that portions of it doubles as a military base...
Same thing near any communications arrays or radio towers (which were fenced off); BIG signs, stern language warning against photography. The locals would take it a step further and inform you that it wasn't all that smart to loiter in those areas, unless one had a penchant for confrontation with guards that liked to make tourists frown and scamper quickly in other directions.
Slightly overkill of a response in my opinion...but that's just me.
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Greek Island lover here (to the point my wife and I were married on Santorini two and a half weeks after 9/11/01 but that's another story). We haven't been back in 4 years but every time beforehand we were greeted with signs at the Santorini airport telling one that photography wasn't much of a welcome activity. Seems that portions of it doubles as a military base... Same thing near any communications arrays or radio towers (which were fenced off); BIG signs, stern language warning against photography. The locals would take it a step further and inform you that it wasn't all that smart to loiter in those areas, unless one had a penchant for confrontation with guards that liked to make tourists frown and scamper quickly in other directions. Slightly overkill of a response in my opinion...but that's just me.