Greece – Alastair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay

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In the face of European homogenisation and mass influx from Albania, Greece has hung onto its quintessential humanity (hospitality to strangers, a propensity for face-to-face business) while embracing some of the more tourist-friendly innovations (road signs, proper breakfasts, western plumbing). Of course, things don’t always go as planned – if they did, it wouldn’t be Greece – but you get there in the end, and with a few extra memories to boot.

This is a country of incredible variety and complexity: over 150 islands in half a dozen archipelagos, from a sea-washed rock like Halki to the rugged enormity of Crete.

Four millennia of palpable human history, from Minoan palaces, through Classical temples and Byzantine churches, to gorgeous 19th-century neoclassical towns.

Catch a skippered yacht trip from a villa on Leros, sea-kayaking on the tiny island of Antiparos, horse-riding through the hills of Corfu or Crete, trekking to snow-fed tarns and Alpine peaks from Papingo.

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