A house above Kalamitsi bay
Three bedrooms, a 13-metre heated infinity pool, and the whole western sky over the Messenian gulf. Ten minutes' walk from the house Patrick Leigh Fermor built.
The book about this peninsula
Mani and the Peloponnese
Kardamyli, Kalamitsi Bay, Stoupa, Areopoli and Cape Tainaron. The house in the photographs above is ten minutes' walk from where Patrick Leigh Fermor built his.
The Mani has 206 mapped places to eat and 17 websites between them. This is a guide built for a peninsula that is almost entirely offline, and every place in it was checked against whatever it does publish, and dated.
The series
Fourteen destinations, one question
Where would you eat if you lived here? Every place in these guides was checked against its own website, and the date is printed in the back.
Summer
Mediterranean
From Ibiza's design villas to Tuscany's wine estates. Where the sun meets serious luxury.
Mediterranean
Peloponnese
Mountains, a coastline in every direction, and the strangest peninsula in Greece.
Mediterranean
Ibiza
Two islands with one name, and most coverage only visits one.
Mediterranean
Mallorca
The island people go back to, which is why the good addresses stay quiet.
Mediterranean
Tuscany
The one that holds up for a long stay with a mixed group.
Mediterranean
Cote d'Azur
The original Riviera, which has had 150 years to arrange itself around visitors.
Mediterranean
Amalfi Coast
Vertical, hard to move around, and worth it if you plan for that.
Mediterranean
Sardinia
The Costa Smeralda is not the island, and rarely the best of it.
Mediterranean
Algarve & Comporta
Two Portugals that get sold as one.
Mediterranean
Greek Cyclades
Everyone writes about two islands. The interesting ones are elsewhere.
Mediterranean
Dalmatian Coast
Reward a boat, punish a car, which reverses how most people plan it.
Winter
Alps & Caribbean
Ski chalets with full staff or beachfront villas with private chefs. The winter decision that defines your year.
Alps
Verbier
A big linked ski area with a village that stays up late.
Alps
Courchevel
Four villages at four altitudes, and they are not interchangeable.
Alps
Chamonix
A mountain town that happens to have skiing, rather than the other way round.
Caribbean
St Barts
A small French island with a very short runway.
Caribbean
Barbados
The Caribbean island with a direct flight and its own culture.
Caribbean
Turks & Caicos
One beach does most of the work, and it deserves to.
Aspirational
Beyond Europe
Overwater villas in the Maldives. Jungle estates in Bali. When you want somewhere truly extraordinary.
Aspirational
Maldives
You are choosing one island, and you cannot change your mind.
Aspirational
Bali
The highest staffing per pound anywhere in this list, which changes what a week is.
Aspirational
Marrakech & the Atlas
The riad works on completely different rules, and the mountains are the other half.
Editorial
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It is the southern half of mainland Greece, technically an island since 1893, and it divides into parts that have almost nothing in common.
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The sea lags the air by about two months, which is why September beats June for swimming and why April is the wrong month for a beach holiday and the right one for everything else.
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