Greece · 9 nights

Marble, Caldera, Meltemi

The journey.

An overnight flight lands in the morning and nothing is scheduled beyond finding somewhere to eat, with the Acropolis lit above the rooftops.

The Acropolis at opening before the heat, with an archaeologist, then the museum that makes sense of it. The afternoon is Plaka.

A short flight, then a cliff village where every terrace faces the same flooded volcano. No photograph prepares you for the first sight of it.

A private sail with lunch aboard, out before the crowded catamarans, with a swim off the back inside the crater.

Assyrtiko grown in low baskets against the wind, which exists almost nowhere else, and the inland villages people actually live in.

A completely free day, placed where you will want it: the pool, the caldera, and a long lunch.

A ferry across to an island that is the opposite of Santorini in temperament, where the wind is constant and the windmills explain themselves.

The sacred island, uninhabited for two thousand years and once the religious centre of the Aegean, then the old town in the evening.

A free day for the south coast, the pool, or the town again.

A flight back to Athens and the connection home.

• Hotel Grande Bretagne, Canaves Oia and Belvedere Mykonos among the choices

• The Acropolis and its museum with an archaeologist, at opening

• Delos with a guide, boat included

• All ferries or island flights, and every port transfer private

• Schengen visas prepared and submitted

• Island accommodation taxes included rather than collected at check out

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