The house is really lovely, clean and well-furnished. The location is ideal if you want to be within easy access of the West coast yet not have to stay in a resort town. Basilis and his mother and brother gave us a very warm welcome, as did Aris, the dog (see below).

The food at Zaharias taverna in the village was really excellent. Worth stopping here even if you don't stay at Basilis'! Note that portions are extremely large but the staff are very happy to give you half portions so you can sample more dishes. Very civilised!

Fallasarna is a few minutes' drive away (although you can walk a few metres to look down at it from the corner of the road. Sfinari is 10 minutes and Elafonisi about 1hr10.

Our only disappointment was to find that the garden and terrace were shared with Basilis' brother's house which is also on AirBnB, and we'd really been looking forward to having our own little space for a few days. Instead each house had a table and chairs, right outside our door.

Aris is a lovely dog but when his owners aren't home he spends a lot of his time running up and down and whimpering which is distressing. And he was often 'over-friendly' if we showed him any attention which was also difficult!