Just don't make too many journeys on the tortuous roads in the mountainous interior, which might make you feel you've shaved years off your life. The local goat's milk, olive oil, organic vegetables and red wine must help, as well as the beautiful setting of sandy beaches and lush hillsides.

There are sunloungers and shade at the rocky shore, or it's a five-minute drive to a sandy beach. Here, a group of 19 individually owned and VOLOS PATRAS TAXI decorated villas are available for hire, each with sea views. A network of footpaths weaves among the lemon and olive trees - it's a mile-and-a-half hike to the village of Spartia.

Villa company Scott Williams has many properties on Paxos, including the simple stone Koulka House, with a pool, sleeping four in the hamlet of Kastanida on the west coast. A week in Koulka House costs from £830, excluding flights (Lunar landscapes - and island-hopping in style

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It is there that he is believed to have proposed to have proposed to his now-fiancée Carrie Symonds (pictured together) Mr Johnson has opted for VOLOS LARISSA TAXI luxury overseas holidays in the past, including spending Christmas in the Caribbean island of Mustique.

He has a variety of options, including the PM's grace-and-favour homes Chevening and Chequers - where Miss Symonds isolated while pregnant during the pandemic - and his privately-owned farmhouse in Oxfordshire.

Pictured: Mr Johnson on holiday on the Greek island of Trikeri in 2016 - when he was Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are both set to shun foreign holidays this summer and instead favour 'staycations' in the UK, sources suggest.

By some local accounts, he arrived to the region by private car after documenting his controversial journey from the UK on social media, sharing a video taken from a plane and a selfie where his face was covered with a white mask.

Tick off Serifos and Sifnos, Naxos and Paros as well as the wild, mountainous island of Kythnos.  You can also hire a catamaran complete with skipper and VOLOS LARISA KTEL chef to sail round the less-well-known Cyclades.

A week-long trip, with flights, VOLOS LARISSA TAXI transfers and car hire, costs from £971pp (The tiny islands that will make a huge impression Ionian Island Holidays has a number of villas in the area, including the simply furnished two-bed Villa Jason, with private pool in the village of Horto.

In the protected wetlands of Ahla Valley, SKIATHOS THESSALONIKI TAXI this collection of 14 cottages lies between a white-sand beach on a secluded bay and a rockpool fed by a waterfall. For a similar eco-village in the wilderness feel, try Onar on Andros, just a couple of hours by ferry from Athens. Built from stone, wood and river reeds, with white and earthy interiors, SKOPELOS THESSALONIKI TAXI the cottages make the perfect base to get away from it all.

Tucked away near the bottom of the peninsula is Citta dei Nicliani, VOLOS SERRES TAXI a rustic but chic hotel in a restored 18th Century tower, with just seven rooms plus two new interconnecting suites in a separate building.

On volcanic Milos, explore the lunar landscape and soft sandy beaches along a shoreline that also features sea caves. Inntravel has a ten-night walking trip in September starting in Athens, including B&B but not flights, from £1,095pp (inntravel.co.uk).

There are superb sea views, too, VOLOS ACHILLION TAXI from rooms at Pedi Beach Hotel, which is right on a pebbly beach in the pretty village. A week's B&B costs from £1,059pp, with flights and transfers (Sunvil also runs holidays to Ikaria in the Aegean, which is one of the world's Blue Zones - places where people live the longest as a result of their healthy diet and easy-going lifestyle.

Hire a boat to see the best bits, pottering around the coast to stop at Galazio beach, which is accessible only by water, VOLOS SERRES TRANSFER and to marvel at the natural rock arch of Kamara. Better still, head over for lunch at one of the tavernas on Paxos's smaller, vine-covered neighbour, Antipaxos.

With 17 beautifully designed suites, villas and houses, it is an ideal place to relax, with plenty of privacy and space. Pictured, the view from a garden view villa In the Cyclades, The Rooster has just opened on the under-the-radar island of Antiparos, offering a luxuriously contemporary take on an authentic Greek hotel.

But it is worth it to be greeted by superb views of one of the most picturesque harbours in the Aegean, with its colourful red-roofed houses, all of which are listed buildings. Arriving at the laid-back Dodecanese island of Symi is part of the experience - too small for its own airport, it is reached by ferry from Rhodes.

At night, dine on organic fresh produce from the vegetable garden. A week's B&B costs from £1,255pp with flights and transfers (Also in the Cyclades, The Rooster has just opened on the under-the-radar island of Antiparos, offering a luxuriously contemporary take on an authentic Greek hotel. With 17 beautifully designed suites, VOLOS ACHILLION TRANSFER villas and houses, it is an ideal place to relax, with plenty of privacy and space. Take a boat trip from the beach to explore the coast, which is scalloped by more than 70 beaches, or head inland on one of the networks of old shepherds' footpaths to explore this lush island which feels a touch more Scottish Highlands than Cyclades.