Skopelos

Find narrow streets lined with craft shops in the pretty harbour, sleepy fishing villages and whitewashed houses climbing up the hillside, seafood restaurants overlooking sandy shores and a string of idyllic secluded coves, scented pines casting an emerald carpet down to the clear water’s edge. Who can forget the scene in Mamma Mia as the wedding party trails upwards to a tiny chapel clinging to a cliff high above the tantalising turquoise sea. Agios Ioannis, reached by 198 stone steps, may be one of Greece’s most dramatic and heralded churches, but this island’s charm goes far beyond the cinematic chapel.