You could spend a lifetime in search of the perfect Greek island. There are so many of them, and so few summers. So, at the beginning of a scorching July, I decided to limit myself to a single archipelago—the Ionian Heptanese—and sample as many as I could.
Our starting point was Kefalonia, on Greece’s west coast. We drove across its mountainous interior, catching regular glimpses of the steep and jagged coastline, before coming to the fishing town of Fiskardo, strung out along the curve of its harbour, looking past an ancient lighthouse to Odysseus’ Ithaca.
North Point Houses—as the name would suggest—is a collection of discreetly luxurious homes on a promontory at the far north of the island. Each has a pool and a glorious view over olive-groves and the charismatic town below, with the sea beyond. The channel between Kefalonia and Ithaca is
