North Point Rooms 1953

The man behind North Point ran Emelisse in Fiskardo for thirteen years, and Perantzada on Ithaca, a pension of 1811 done out with Verner Panton and Philippe Starck, is his too. In 2017 he went smaller. Six rooms in three stone buildings share a walled garden beside the Panayia church in Markandonata, ten minutes' drive from Fiskardo. The stone is laid rough, rust and grey, under terracotta roofs, with a round window high in one gable, and cypresses and olives stand over the wall. The pool has a glass panel at one end and is so shallow that the hotel asks, in capitals, that nobody dive. It is a pool for lying in. For grey days there is a library, and a fireplace corner.

Recommended for couples who want a garden shared by twelve guests at most and do not mind driving to dinner. Nobody under sixteen stays, and there is no restaurant: the evening is Fiskardo, or a private chef in the kitchen, arranged ahead. Breakfast makes up for it: three hours, from eight until eleven, of breads, eggs, Greek dishes and homemade cake. From the village a signed path drops through the woods to Dafnoudi, a cove of small caves where monk seals are said to nest; Emblisi Bay is eight minutes by car. Annika and Harris run to about 45 square metres each, with terraces and big walk-in showers. Stefania, in the roof of the third building, gives up five of them and is the one room the hotel describes by its view: far-reaching, mostly green, and towards the sea.