With magnificent scenery and character all of their own, the smaller Dodecanse islands offer opportunities to get off the tourist trail and experience a completely different side of Greece. John Zada for The National
For the mind that revels in indecision, there is no exercise more satisfyingly brain-racking than that of seeking out a Greek island on which to spend one’s precious holiday time. Look at any detailed map of the Aegean and Ionian seas and you will see why. Peppering that small expanse of blue is a near-infinite miscellany of weather-beaten rocks existing in their own worlds. The possibilities seem endless.
This search for an island, ironically, becomes exponentially more daunting as one eliminates the places that magnetise the Greece-going herd: Santorini with its honeymoon sunsets, Mykonos with its prefabricated hedonism, and Rhodes with its package tourist compounds and poolside fitness instruction sessions.
