Corporate schmo here, based in US. I am looking for the best Greek island/town where I can just sit, chill and decompress for 10 days or so. My interests, in the following order based on interest are: good food, chill pubs, nice beach (doesn’t have to be epic), day hiking, and sight seeing. Basically I need a place where I can check out of society for a bit and have a good time doing it. Any suggestions?
Naxos? The biggest island of Cyclades? Choose a village as base and go around the island! Or change a couple of villages to stay!
Apollon is a small fisherman place, different beaches already there, restaurants and bars but if you find a place away from the Main Street but 3 minutes from there, you will have your peace and just watch the few people there go up and down.
Wow. Thank you for this. I will def check it out. Much appreciated.
I agree wholeheartedly with Naxos. As a fellow corporate schmo who just got home from Greece and traveled around a decent bit while I was there, I wish I’d just have stayed in Naxos for most of the time. I haven’t felt so relaxed and at peace in a long time. A day or two in Athens is worth it upfront or at the end for sure, but I plan to head back to Greece someday specifically to just mellow out on Naxos.
Athens is definitely a must! Maybe at the end, to be sure to catch your flight and have no surprises with the commute.
If you have questions, let me know! I can probably help quite a bit!
We are definite on early July trip to Naxos for 7 + days and saw your note... and have not picked where on island yet. Little background info: we are both active 70. 2 yrs ago had fabulous multi week Athens; Napflio; Zakynthos; Milos; Santorini trip and now we want to hunker down. We like beaches and the small town vibe but we will have a car so it won't matter. So where do you think will be best part of island? Hotel - B & B - Airbnb? Any input you provide would be welcome. Thanks, Jack C.
If you are active, head to 2 different places! My proposal would be Apollon and you visit the north of Naxos and the villages nearby. This is Apollon:
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/csqseAvTLxg
Then the other could be a big village like Filoti or one of the smaller ones, that is what I would choose and you can stay in the middle of the island and see the south and west part like Hawai beach
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yigFGs8ZrOU
If you want to be more specific on what u wish to see and do, I can propose more concrete places.
What a quick response! Thanks. Definitely going to take some digging to figure this out.