We have been to beautiful places all over the world, usually in Airbnb and VRBO type rentals. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Israel, Greece, all over the United States. Ioannis's apartment, directly overlooking the Kea bay and port had the most amazingly, staggeringly beautiful setting of any such place we have ever stayed.

Ioannis was easy to be in touch with, gave us tons of useful suggestions; and his mom, who met us at the port, was also a delight.

The place itself feels like a large authentic apartment in a small Greek village -- which it is, and which enhanced the feeling of getting away. When we arrived, there was a bowl of fruit, a basket of strawberries, juice, water bottles, spices, oil, bug spray and laundry detergent -- it was quite nice not to have to think about "stocking up" to get through a few days.

We did day trips/hikes to the nearby lighthouse past archaic and 19th century ruins, to the AMAZING Karthaia temple and ampitheater, and to Ioulis (town with very ancient roots and a lion sculpted into the bedrock from something like 3000 years ago).

On top of all that, there is a great strip of restaurants and small shops a short walk from the apartment, and even the port was a reasonable walk (about 2 kilometers).