Mykonos

Mykonos is two islands in one breath: the whitewashed Cycladic dream and the Mediterranean’s most glamorous party. In Chora, the main town, a maze of dazzling white lanes and blue shutters winds down to the windmills and the sea-lapped houses of Little Venice, where the sunset draws a nightly crowd. By day the island belongs to its beaches — the see-and-be-seen sands of Psarou and Paradise, the bohemian-luxe rituals of Scorpios — and by night to a restless, stylish energy that rarely sleeps. It is unashamedly premium: a lounger at the famous beach clubs costs real money, and July and August are peak in every sense. But there is depth here too — long a haven of the Mediterranean’s LGBTQ+ scene, and a short boat ride from sacred Delos, the uninhabited UNESCO island that was the mythical birthplace of Apollo. Come for the glamour; stay for the light, the whitewash and the wine-dark sea.

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