DESTINATIONS GREECE | FOOD & DRINK 3 PADDLE FOR YOUR SUPPER AT SANTIKOS


If clients fancy working up an appetite before they tuck in to their food, suggest Santikos Collection’s new ‘Paddle for your SUPper’ experience, just launched at its Marpunta Resort in Alonissos. Guests are invited on a sunset stand-up paddleboarding excursion to reach a secluded cove, where a candlelit dinner on the beach awaits. Tasting menus have been created by the head chef – think slow-cooked octopus, grilled red tuna, manouri cheese and


beef – and rooms are a short stroll away so there’s no need to paddle back. Book it: Olympic Holidays offers a week from £969 per person, based on two sharing with breakfast, including flights on July 13. olympicholidays.com


DINE AT PESKESI RESTAURANT IN CRETE


From fried snails to kalitsounia (cheese pastries), sheep’s cheese to slow-cooked lamb, Crete is one of Greece’s premier foodie hotspots, and the island isn’t short on tavernas in which to sample its specialities. But for one of the most authentic, Planet Holidays recommends Peskesi Restaurant in Heraklion. “It’s set in a restored mansion and serves traditional, authentic cuisine with the aim of reviving forgotten Cretan recipes,” says Harry Kyrillou, Planet Holidays’ aviation and commercial director. “Everything is either grown on their own farm or locally sourced, and you can’t leave without trying their rakomelo, a liquor made from


Cretan raki and honey.” Book it: Planet Holidays offers seven nights’ B&B at the five-star Aldemar Knossos Royal in Crete from £1,054, based on two sharing with private transfers and flights from Gatwick on August 31.


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LEARN TO COOK MUSSELS IN HALKIDIKI


Clients into their seafood? Direct them to Olymbiada in northeast Halkidiki, says Dudley der Parthog, Greece director at Sunvil. “The mussels there are rated among the best in the world, thanks to the optimum growing conditions,” he says. “They are cooked in many different ways – baked, steamed or fried – and all are delicious and healthy.” For a hands-on way to have a taste, the operator suggests a stay at Liotopi Hotel, which offers free weekly cooking classes for guests to learn the traditional methods and to taste their


creations afterwards. Book it: A week’s half-board at Liotopi Hotel costs from £846 based on two sharing, including a complimentary cooking demonstration, flights and transfers. sunvil.co.uk


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