The picturesque seaside village of Kokkari on the Greek island of Samos is unusually quiet for this time of year. Sunbeds on its long pebble beach lie mostly empty; customers in the shops are few and ...

Psili Ammos is jammed in third gear. It is not that there is nobody on the beach, or in the cafés alongside it. But I cannot help feeling, as I stroll along the shore, that the party hasn’t properly ...

There are empty loungers sheltered by idle umbrellas, and there is plenty of space on the sand for the frisbee throwers and paddling families who have set up camp. Opposite, the Ammos Samos Beach Bar ...