This Greek 目的地 is the perfect blend of 古代の and new - and the ultimate family holiday 位置／汚点／見つけ出す

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As bath times go, it 落ちるs short of a Churchillian soak. But the three thousand year old terracotta tub, lined with spiral motifs and 概略で the size of a 二塁打 Belfast 沈む, brims with majesty and myth.

For it was here, I tell my family dragooned into a morning 小旅行する of Greece’s best 保存するd Mycenaean palace, that Telemachus is said to have been bathed by King Nestor’s youngest daughter after arriving at the 年輩の 軍人’s pile desperate for news of his 行方不明の father Odysseus, still not home from the Trojan War.

‘Not much room to 嘘（をつく） 負かす／撃墜する, is there?’ ponders Felix, 13.

No, son, but with a panorama like this who can 非難する ホームラン’s oldest and wisest hero for 任命する／導入するing a 部隊 that 要求するs you to bathe bolt upright?

With 広範囲にわたる 見解（をとる）s of Navarino Bay and the sparkling Ionian Sea, this B.C. bathroom looks out の上に heaven.

Olive groves as far as the 注目する，もくろむ can see; perfect unspoiled sands. Not to について言及する, in an 隣接するing room, 残余s of a ワイン 蓄える／店 fit for Dionysius himself.

No wonder, legend has it, Nestor lived for three 世代s.

類似の life 高めるing values can be 設立する a few kilometres 負かす／撃墜する the hill at the Costa Navarino, a high end collection of world class hotels that 含む Greece's first 蜜柑 Oriental, which blends Homeric 歓待 with a sensitivity to landscape and 遺産.

Fiona and her family visit Navarino Bay, Greece, and spend the morning 小旅行するing the best-保存するd Mycenaean palace

?Navarino Bay looks out の上に the sparkling Ionian Sea

Telemachus is said to have been bathed by King Nestor’s youngest daughter in the bathtub at Nestor's palace

設立するd by Captain Vassilis Constantakopoulos, a shipping company owner and keen 環境保護主義者, his 見通し was to create a 目的地 that would have sustainability and Messinian culture at its heart.

We are staying at the W Costa Navarino, the newest 新規加入 to his 高級な tribe, where the old is thoughtfully mixed with the brand, spanking new.

The spacious central ロビー is a 事例／患者 in point: soft grey 地元の 石／投石する 塀で囲むs are 相殺する by gleaming 床に打ち倒す to 天井 glass doors through which two perfectly 任命するd infinity pools call like サイレン／魅惑的なs 誘惑するing us in for a swim.

Without my glasses on, I 秘かに調査する what seems to be a collage of 地位，任命する-it 公式文書，認めるs covering the 塀で囲む behind the 歓迎会 desk.

Turns out, it’s a modern tableaux of Linear-B, a homage to the script discovered on clay tablets in Nestor’s Palace and the earliest known form of Greek.

See, kids? Classics?can be 冷静な／正味の.

‘It is here,’ 譲歩するs Evie, 17, so impressed by her trendy surroundings that her noise/parent cancelling headphones, worn every minute of the three hour 運動 from Athens airport, finally slide 負かす／撃墜する to her shoulders.

It may be 軽く押す／注意を引くing thirty degrees, but there’s no mistaking the 冷静な／正味の vibe の中で the clientele. If it weren’t for the luggage, I’d think we’d つまずくd in on a fashion shoot.

Fiona and her family stayed at the W Costa Navarino, part of a a high-end collection of world class hotels

The old is thoughtfully mixed with the brand spanking new at the W Costa Navarino, says Fiona

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The pool （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する in the 隣接するing W Lounge, home to the funky main 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 and games area, has caught Felix’s attention. I’m drawn to the stylish 棚上げにするing 部隊s dotted with glossy design 調書をとる／予約するs and objets d’art. My husband, as ever, has an 注目する，もくろむ on lunch.

Five minutes later, we’re tucking into the tastiest Greek salad and a moreish house white as we sit on the terrace overlooking the sea.

Thanks to the islet of Sfacteria, which 行為／法令／行動するs as a windbreake r, Navarino Bay is blissfully 避難所d from the gusts that can grate with even the most devout Grecophile.

I could sit here all day ? if the hipsters would let me.

Our interconnecting rooms, with gorgeous 見解（をとる）s of the sea, are light, 有望な and modern while also 存在 高度に absorbent of family mess ? a 結論 I come to after a massage at the spa that leaves me comatose with 静める.

負かす／撃墜する at the beachfront pool, the 空気／公表する of serenity continues - a fact my husband puts 負かす／撃墜する to the absence of little ones, as the hotel only 許すs guests over the age of 12. Parents of toddlers, your time will come. Parents of teens, rejoice; for Costa Navarino has pretty much thought of everything.

While days can be spent in a blur of water sports, ゴルフ (there are four immaculate courses), tennis, padel and pickleball, nights are enlivened by DJ 始める，決めるs in the central agora for which you can even rent your own 声明 party outfit. I keep this （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） to myself.

For having tasted dinner at Parelia, a casual-冷静な／正味の beachside restaurant with the sort of oversized wicker lanterns that have me mentally stripping out the 時代遅れの kitchen スポットライトs at home, I have no その上の need of evening entertainment.

Fiona and her family enjoy servings of tasty Greek salad on their holiday (在庫／株 image)

How could I in the 直面する of its 巨大（な） pan of ambr osial lamb, garnished with the best part of a rosemary bush and potatoes to die for?

The dish would comfortably 料金d a family for a week. Not for the first time, I look at 地雷 and wonder how half of them ended up vegetarian.

Felix, my only carnivore, blinks at the tower of meat before him and 公約するs to do his best.

Our final day and we are 説得するd out of our 慰安 zone for a cycling/引き上げ（る）ing 小旅行する 儀礼 of Navarino Outdoors.

Our charming guide Dinos, an astro-physicist about to start the olive 選ぶing season, cycles us to Voidokoilia beach 経由で the flamingos of Limnothalassa lake.

It’s a beautiful 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるd by the 廃虚s of Old Navarino 城 and 誘発するs him to break into song. I’m half 推定する／予想するing a Greek folk tune and am taken aback when I recognise the number: Ed Sheeran’s 城 on the Hill.

It’s faintly surreal but we applaud and he laughs. Once again, with the lightest touch, 古代の and modern 提携させる.