Myrtos Beach is often rated as the best in Greece and is a sight you may already know from photos.

The beach lies between the vertiginous lower slopes of two mountains, the 900-metre Kalon Oros and Agia Dynati, in the north of the island.

With tufts of green vegetation the slopes plunge to this marble pebble beach, which is almost a kilometre long and with rows of sun loungers to rent.

The beach shelves quite steeply, and when the light catches the marble sediment churned up in the water it glows in a mesmerising shade of blue.