Independent travel guides to Greece.https://greeksun.co.uk/en-gbhttps://greeksun.co.uk/news/why-visit-greece/https://greeksun.co.uk/news/why-visit-greece/The ancient sites worth building a trip around, when to go so they are bearable, and why the same handful of Greek myths keeps resurfacing everywhere else.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/lipsi/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/lipsi/The largest of the small islands north-east of Patmos: one harbour, a handful of tavernas, and no beach more than an hour's walk away.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/schinoussa/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/schinoussa/It is hard to understand why such a charming, unspoilt island with beaches, pretty village and lovely walks, has been so thoroughly ignored by tourists, and long may that last.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/karpathos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/karpathos/Mountains over 1,200 metres, forest, and some of the most dramatic beaches in the Greek islands, with a medieval village at the north end that still speaks its own dialect.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/anafi/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/anafi/A small satellite of Santorini with magnificent sand beaches and forbidding volcanic terrain. Anafi is remote and quiet enough to put some travellers off, which is precisely what recommends it to the rest.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/chios/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/chios/Thirty miles long, lunar in the north and carpeted with citrus in the south, with medieval villages that look like nowhere else in Greece.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/tilos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/tilos/For such a small island (63 sq km) Tilos has a lot to offer and over the years has established a loyal clientele that returns year after year.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/santorini/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/santorini/This wonderful volcanic island that boasts the spectacular town of Thira and black sand beaches is truly unique in the Cycladic firmament.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/rhodes/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/rhodes/A medieval walled city that survived almost intact, and a gateway to the small Dodecanese islands most of its visitors never see.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/syros/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/syros/The administrative capital of the Cyclades and the most extraordinary neoclassical working town in Greece, with quiet beaches on the far coast.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/skyros/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/skyros/The odd one out in the Sporades, with the landscape and architecture of a Cycladic island and no ferry link to its own neighbours.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/kassos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/kassos/Few if any islands offer a warmer welcome. Remote, barren and truly unspoilt, Kassos will satisfy the most demanding expectations of mass market escapism.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/kimolos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/kimolos/A ferry with room for seventy people, one port, three tavernas and the best pie in the Cyclades. Kimolos is small on purpose.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/kastelorizo/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/kastelorizo/The smallest island in the Dodecanese and the easternmost point of Greece, one nautical mile from Turkey, with a harbour front that does all the work.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/paros/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/paros/Cosmopolitan Naoussa, bustling Parikia and quiet Piso Livadi/Logaras vie for your attention on this ever-popular island blessed with marvellous beaches.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/lemnos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/lemnos/A Greek island with an airport that mass tourism never found, given mostly to corn fields and cattle, with a Byzantine castle over the old harbour.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/symi/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/symi/A harbour town of 375 steps and neoclassical mansions, fifty minutes from Rhodes and almost impossibly photogenic.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/antiparos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/antiparos/Ten minutes across the channel from Paros, and most of Paros never comes. Superb sand, safe swimming and a village built against pirates.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/milos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/milos/Colourful, uncrowded, super sandy beaches with the convenience of air travel a possibility all the way.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/tinos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/tinos/The Cyclades' best-kept secret, packed with Greek pilgrims and almost no foreign tourists, and the only island in Greece where you can learn to carve marble.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/leros/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/leros/Leros is by no means a typical Greek island. Italian rule between the two world wars has bequeathed the island a distinctive Italian feel with colourful, 1930s buildings and wide, tree-lined boulevards the most obvious signs of this influence.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/lesvos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/lesvos/Greece's third largest island, with castles from the fourteenth century, olive groves five hundred years old, and distances that defeat a single base.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/fourni/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/fourni/A fishing island where the lobster costs a fraction of what it does elsewhere, and people come over from three other islands to eat it.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/samos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/samos/A hundred miles of coastline, craggy highlands and some of the most imposing ancient sites in the eastern Aegean, with Ephesus a day trip away.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/athens/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/athens/The gateway to almost every island and a city worth a night at each end of the trip, rather than an airport to pass through.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/naxos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/naxos/The largest island in the Cyclades, and the one that rewards moving around: a Venetian kastro, mountain villages and miles of empty west-coast sand.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/patmos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/patmos/The Jerusalem of the Aegean: the island where St John wrote the Book of Revelation, on an unusually long and intricate coastline.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/serifos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/serifos/Bare hills, fertile valleys and long sandy beaches, two hours and twenty minutes from Piraeus and still largely to itself.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/chalki/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/chalki/Twenty-five square kilometres of limestone west of Rhodes, three hundred inhabitants, no large hotels, and a UNESCO title it has actually earned.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/iraklia/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/iraklia/It is difficult to imagine a more peaceful and remote holiday destination. Few places to stay, few places to eat, blissfully quiet, lovely beach and scenery. Glorious walking.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/koufonissia/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/koufonissia/High quality beaches, excellent accommodation and a modicum of facilities equal unspoilt Greek Island life at its very best.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/halkidiki/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/halkidiki/Three fingers of land south of Thessaloniki, separated by two horseshoe bays, with the monasteries of Mount Athos on the furthest one.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/ikaria/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/ikaria/Twenty-one miles long and never more than five wide, with pine-covered hills, untamed ravines and villages clinging to slopes that drop straight into the sea.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/sifnos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/sifnos/No airport, no jumbo jets, just sandy beaches, daunting barren hills and delightful white cubed villages connected by wonderful walks.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/crete-eastern-sitia-area/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/crete-eastern-sitia-area/The far eastern end of Crete, distant enough from the international airports to have escaped what happened to the rest of the island's coast.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/amorgos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/amorgos/A long, mountainous island at the south-eastern edge of the Cyclades, with a thousand-year-old monastery built into a cliff face 300 metres above the sea.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/folegandros/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/folegandros/With possibly the most attractive hilltop village in Greece, this long and mountainous island is a must for all Grecophiles.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/donoussa/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/donoussa/Tranquil and remote, this outpost of the Eastern Cyclades has all the prerequisites of sandy beaches, unspoilt Greek island community and marvellous walks to ensure a peaceful holiday.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/astypalea/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/astypalea/Butterfly-shaped, remote and yet accessible by air, Astypalea is the perfect spot to unwind and soak up that quintessential Greek island atmosphere.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/mykonos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/mykonos/White cubed architecture combines with first class sandy beaches and excellent accommodation on this top-draw, brash, extroverted playground of the Aegean.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/sikinos/https://greeksun.co.uk/greek-islands/sikinos/One of the least known Cycladic Islands where secluded bays, sandy beaches and hilltop chora all weave their inimitable magic.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT