‘Nn-cha, nn-cha’ was the response I got (it’s meant to be a bassline) from almost everyone (barring the people who said “oi-oi!”) when I said I was going to Mykonos for the weekend. The island’s reputation as a pricey party spot is well-established and well-deserved, but the terribly pretty main town, Chora, can also be very relaxing, and is stuffed with top-tier hotels.
Among them, on a prime hillside site overlooking the old port, nestles the Belvedere, a collection of buildings erected in the 1990s around the Mansion Stoupa, an elegant 19th century villa entirely out of keeping with the local architecture, and its famously beautiful gardens.
