Cephalonia, Greece

Cephalonia is the largest of the seven-island Ionian group and undoubtedly the best, but then I’m biased. We looked at 13 destinations before building a villa here and we’ve never regretted it. Cephalonia was slow to bite the tourism apple and as a result, the islanders learnt a lot from other people’s mistakes. Development is heavily restricted and low key - there are no buildings above three storeys, no hotels closer than 100 metres to the shore.