Choosing a favourite anchorage in Greece is a bit like going to the old pick-and-mix stand and getting lost amongst the variety of sugary sweets to choose from. So, 10 favourites could easily become 20 or 30. Anchorages can have a special resonance for all sorts of reasons: from their beauty, to their solitude, to safety and all-round shelter, to old nostalgic associations and more. For this limited choice you have every reason to disagree and wonder why on earth I left out your favourite anchorage in Greece. Because it’s just 10 of them.
Greece has the longest coastline in the Mediterranean and moreover the coastline was drawn by some god, or maybe Slartibartfast from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, with a shaky hand so that it has lots of indentations and gulfs all over the place that provide a bounty of anchorages. Around the coast and islands of Greece you can usually find a good anchorage within 20 or 30 miles, usually
