Even though it’s the island with the shortest journey time from Split, with regular ferry services from Dalmatia’s sassy capital, it gets passed over for more famous destinations near by. The problem: you crave island escapism, but fancy the occasional shot of lively Mediterranean life. See more Solta island, Croatia (Alamy) 8. Try Marina di Campo for safe shallows and pedalos, or lively Cavoli with DJs at night. They’ll also love Elba’s mountain biking, and choosing between its 150 beaches.
When the children tire of beach activities at Hotel del Golfo and Boney museums in the capital, Portoferraio, make for Marciana town’s wire-cage chairlift to the island’s peak - a thrill a minute for teenagers, with views to Corsica. Napoleon’s prison island, where wealthy Florentines spend self-imposed exile, is a family all-rounder. Lunch? Make it Triton in Zaklopatica bay, a smart restaurant serving lobster to yachties. Visit Lastovo town, a lovely tumbledown village of stone houses and sleepy cats, or dive in some of the Adriatic’s cleanest seas (book with ). You’ll need a scooter from Ubli port, but your stay in the Struga lighthouse on an isolated bay defines escapist romance. The reward for a three-hour schlep to one of Croatia’s most remote islands is a nature reserve adrift in time as much as location. It also has beaches, the best of them in Cikat bay. It’s where the Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Josef I spent his holidays, so has five-star luxury in Boutique Hotel Alhambra and posh restaurants on Mali Losinj harbour. Cres, linked by bridge to Losinj, is wild and timeless, its Venetian harbour a cat’s cradle of medieval churches and old mansions strung with washing, its north a network of cobbled paths through bosky vales with thermals ridden by Croatia’s last griffon vultures. You’re getting two islands for the price of one here. Drift from Prassa beach (pale sand, glassy sea) to tamarisk-fringed Kalamitsi, then freshen up in your apartment before hitting Chorio for aperitifs in Agora Cocktail Bar and dinner at Meltemi.
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Taxis? You’ll want driver Aneza, the only transport beyond a tourist bus and bikes. Those stacks you snorkelled over off Ellinika beach? Ruins of a sunken Mycenaean city.
This Cycladic pinprick is better thought of as Greece as it used to be: easygoing, casually littered with absorbing history. New hotels have resulted in tiny Kimolos being hailed as a boho bolt hole. See more Kimolos island, Greece (Alamy) 4. Stay in Hotel La Désirade for easy access to everything. The north coast has seafood restaurants on pastel-fronted Sauzon harbour and gorgeous wild beaches Donnant is the pick of the bunch. The “Beautiful Isle” has Brittany’s greatest hits packaged in one island, its air of exclusivity preserved by a pricey ferry and summer international opera festival. Only the British forgot about Brittany’s largest island after they swapped it for Menorca in 1763. Monet came to paint sea stacks, the Belle Époque actress Sarah Bernhardt to escape fame, President Mitterrand for crêpes. Unless you’ve booked a guided walk to those islets, your schedules are dictated only by lunch times and the tides. You’re staying on Grand Île, a Famous Five fairytale of beach, butterflies, copses and meadows, with local lobster and oysters in the island’s two restaurants. Islands, actually - Europe’s largest tidal range means that its 52 granite islets become 365, some accessible by beaches that come and go twice daily. Less than 30 miles from Jersey, tiny Chausey is the Channel Island that the French kept to themselves. Main photo: Andros town, Greece (Getty Images) 2.
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The trip also slots in free days to explore the Venetian fort and antiquity museum. Accompanied by an Andros Routes guide, you will walk three to five hours daily, visiting Byzantine forts on terraced hills, meeting locals in nicely ramshackle villages and ambling through chestnut valleys spanned by stone bridges. On this guided tour you’ll arrive after seven nights on the neighbouring island of Tinos. The revenue generated will help us to support the content of this website and to continue to invest in our award-winning journalism.Īncient shepherds’ tracks restored a decade ago by the volunteer group Andros Routes and easy access from Athens make this is an island to pique walkers’ interest. These links are signposted with an asterisk. This article contains links which are ads and if you click on a link and buy a product we will earn revenue. We feature properties from a specially selected list of trusted operators who are of a standard that we believe our readers expect. All products and brands mentioned in this article are selected by our writers and editors based on first-hand experience or customer feedback.
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