Meganísi

For those hankering for a peaceful, low-key taste of authentic Greece, try Meganísi, a wildly indented jigsaw piece, covered in forests and ancient olive groves, with little beaches tucked in here and there, although in the past couple of decades it’s been well and truly discovered—but still lovely for all that.

The ‘big island’ (big, that is, among the islets off eastern Lefkáda) is believed to be the island of Taphios in the Odyssey, and the base of the semi-mythical Teleboans, sailors and pirates who at one point were powerful enough to take on the king of Mycenae.