The name means “Big Island,” but don’t be fooled-this nine-mile isle is just the largest of the 10 islets dotted along the coast of Lefkada in the Ionian sea.

Just remember, if you book one, you’ll have to bring groceries from Paxos.Ī beach in Meganissi Five Star Greece Meganissi, Ionian Islands You can find posh options on U.K.-based sites such as Condé Nast Traveler specialist The Thinking Traveller and Ionian Villas, and simpler homes on Airbnb and Vrbo. There are, however, some villa retreats if you’d like to feel like you have the island to yourself after the beachcombers head home. The tavernas only serve lunch (which, this being Greece, can go as late as sunset)-as there isn't much of a dinner crowd given the lack of hotels on the island. You can swim or snorkel in the crystal-clear waters-or head to the nearby, even smaller islet of Daskalia to scuba dive, hike the hills, and eat in one of the island's four simple, delicious tavernas: Spiros Taverna or Vrika Beach Taverna on Vrika beach, Voutoumi Beach Bar and Restaurant on Voutoumi beach, or Bella Vista, on the hill above Voutoumi beach. But every summer day hundreds of visitors to Paxos make the 15-minute boat trip to spend a few hours swimming in the turquoise seas off of Antipaxos’s three main beaches, pebbly Mesovrika and Voutoumi or white-sand Vrika. Less than 30 people live on Antipaxos, the three-mile large islet one mile off the coast of Paxos. The Thinking Traveller's Iremia villa on Antipaxos, one of the less-crowded Greek islands The Thinking Traveller Antipaxos, Ionian Islands

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