PADDY’S GREEK WORLD

KALAMITSI Hotel is one of the closest places you can stay to Patrick Leigh Fermor’s former home on a peaceful hillside near the village of Kardamyli ( kalamitsi-hotel.gr). A week’s B&B stay costs from £922 pp in May, including Gatwick flights and transfers ( sunvil. co.uk, 020 8758 4758).

ALTERNATIVELY, stay at the Liakoto self-catering apartments by the seafront in Kardamyli. A week’s stay is from £828pp, with Gatwick flights and transfers. Or there’s the Anniska selfcatering apartments, from £864pp with Gatwick flights and transfers. Both are offered by Sunvil (as above).

LELA’S Taverna in Kardamyli serves traditional Greek dishes — open 6pm to 10pm from mid-April until November ( lelastaverna.com). Simple rooms with seaview balconies from £35.

ON THE southernmost tip of the Mani Peninsula, the Kyrimai hotel is in a cluster of 19th-century stone buildings by the sea’s edge ( kyrimai.gr). It has a first-rate seafood restaurant and a handful of tavernas at the nearby fishing village of Gerolimenas (within walking distance). B&B rooms from £81. A week’s B&B stay with flights and transfers is from £981 with Sunvil. FLIGHTS from Gatwick to Kalamata airport, about an hour’s drive away, from £123 ( easyjet.com). FURTHER information at maniguide. info and visitgreece.gr