Whilst spending a winter and summer based on the island of Kalimnos, I was able to do quite a bit of island-hopping to a number of islands which had always been on my "list"of islands to visit.  As always, they were fantastic!  A highlight was climbing Mt Zeus on Naxos!  Syros was a pleasant surprise......quite sophisticated, I thought.  Ios is fab "out of season",  Astypalea stark and remote!  I loved it!  Sikinos as sleepy as it gets! And Folegandros has the most impossibly picturesque chora you could wish to see!  Leros and Kalimnos retain their charming beach-comber scruffiness...real working islands; and as friendly, friendly as could be!

KALIMNOS    LEROS    TELENDOS    NAXOS    SYROS    IOS    SIKINOS    FOLEGANDROS   ASTYPALEA