Greece

A capital, a port and roughly two hundred inhabited islands, run on one ferry timetable.

Greece is where the Relax Explorer catalogue starts, and not for sentimental reasons: an Athens base connects by ferry and short-haul flight to island destinations that behave like separate countries, so one verification trip covers several kinds of place. The mainland carries the archaeology and the year-round city; the islands carry the season.

128 million international tourist nights2024