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

The rugged Mani peninsula, taxi from Volos Airport port to acropolis the middle prong of the Peloponnese, taxi fare piraeus to Dion airport is one of Greece's most isolated and starkly beautiful regions, with the Taygetus Mountains running down its spine. Its people claim direct descendancy from the ancient Spartans.

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For some dramatic mountain and lake scenery, head to Epirus in northern Greece, where you can stay in a lodge in the heart of the Zagori region, visiting cheese farms and vineyards as well as quaint villages with medieval arched stone bridges spanning babbling rivers.

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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, Vergina guided tour The Rooster has just opened on the under-the-radar island of Antiparos, offering a luxuriously contemporary take on an authentic Greek hotel.

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Stay on an organic olive oil farm on the island's shores, with just four eco-luxe villas on the seven-acre Levendis Estate. A ferry ride away, Ithaca may be famous for being the home of the legendary hero Odysseus, but it is much sleepier than neighbouring Kefalonia.

Greeks come here to ski in the winter and to swim in the summer. With pretty villages, lush forests and hidden beaches, the area where Mount Pelion drops into the sea has a sprinkling of small pensions - or guesthouses - rather than big hotels.

Take in the imposing Chora town on a rocky hill on Serifos, and the vineyards and olive groves of Sifnos, where trails lead to little monasteries or a medieval fortified village (be sure to try the local speciality of mastelo - goat or lamb marinated in red wine and cooked in ceramic pots). Why settle for one island when you could squeeze in lots more?

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

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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.

A week-long trip, with flights, transfers and car hire, online taxi Katigiorgis 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.



A week's B&B costs from £647pp, excluding flights (cittadeinicliani.com). Swim in rocky coves a short drive away, and Katigiorgis transport visit the Diros Caves - one is more than a mile long that can be explored during a 40-minute boat trip.

There are superb sea views, too, 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 piraeus bus to Tailor Made Tour 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.

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, the cottages make the perfect base to get away from it all. In the protected wetlands of Ahla Valley, this collection of 14 cottages lies between a white-sand beach on a secluded bay and a rockpool fed by a waterfall.