Samos

Samos is one of the lesser known Greek Islands but every schoolchild knows its two most famous local lads – Aesop the fable teller, and mathematician Pythagoras, the man with a square on his hypotenuse!

Less than 2 kilometres form the Turkish mainland, this green and fruitful island has a mountainous western region where wild orchids and aromatic medicinal herbs grown among the pines.  The fertile lowlands are covered in olive groves, and vineyards producing the famous sweet Samos Muscat wine (and you’ll find plenty of very quaffable dry whites and reds too).