(These are the top 25 islands to visit by boat in 2025.) A crew member gets the boat ready to sail. Photograph by James Green “The Ionian Sea is a paradise,” says Apostolis in a slow ...

Located off the west coast of mainland Greece, the Ionian islands are one of Europe’s top leisure sailing and yachting destinations. Navigation is easy — the region’s 100 or so islands and ...

SUNBATHING on the deck of my OWN yacht, sailing around Greece’s Ionian Islands, it felt as though I was living someone else’s life. Because let’s face it, yachting is for the really ...

Neilson (neilson.co.uk) also runs flotillas in the Ionian Islands and, for beginners, offers a “stay and sail” holiday, where you spend the first week at a beach club, training with an ...

But all this would become crystal- clear as my girlfriend Britta and I embarked on a weeks learn-to-sail course around the Greek Ionian Islands. We were welcomed by our skipper Andy Cameron in the ...

But leave the crowds to Corfu. The Ionian islands are best discovered by boat, the smaller the better. It’s notable that Luxe Sailing’s itinerary omits Corfu entirely. Climbing aboard the Sol ...

From scuba diving in the Ionian Islands to sailing in the Peloponnese or adventures at resorts renowned for their water ...