Truly spectacular. Mirtos Beach looks amazing from the road above, but don't be fooled - all that white stuff is not sand, it's pebbles!

Having said that, Mirtos Beach is still gorgeous - huge white cliffs and a wide, curving, white beach with less than a handful of people on it, although it may well get busy in the high season (we were there in May). The road down there is interesting - if you are interested by steep gradients, hair pin bends, a vertical drop on one side and sharing your road with coaches which want BOTH sides.

Once down there, you just park on the beach and reward yourself with a stiff coffee in the one taverna and, if you are VERY brave, use the porta-loo. (Oh dear, 1/10)

I tried a swim - no one else was in the water, which should have warned me, but...

It was exhilarating! Huge waves pounding me and a tremendous suction, when I tried to get out, which nearly buried me in pebbles. It was interesting trying to get them all out of my costume later.