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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Claire Spreadbury

The family-friendly beach getaway with an activity for everyone

James and Poppy in the freshwater lake at the Polilimnio Waterfalls - (Claire Spreadbury/PA)

I feel like an 80-year-old woman, clambering over slippery rocks on all-fours. I appear to have – rather embarrassingly – acquired my own personal hand-holder.

George – one of the tour guides from Climb Up Outdoor Activities – is helping us hike through water ponds, vegetation and ‘picturesque’ (read: broken) wooden bridges, to the Polilimnio Waterfalls in southern Greece. I’m not the oldest or least fit here, but I seem to have a sign on my forehead, warning him I’m the most clumsy.

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