When the new small-screen adaptation of One Day dropped on Netflix earlier this year, it sparked a flicker of lust in millions of binge-watchers across the nation. Much of that could, of course, be attributed to leading man Leo Woodall – he of the ’90s boy band face and roguish charm (which masked an equally appealing inner vulnerability..
. but that’s for a different article). But at least some of the longing was reserved for another element of the show: the idyllic Greek island featured in episode four, which finds Em ( Ambika Mod ) and Dex (Woodall) enjoying a definitely-as-platonic-friends-and-nothing-more holiday à deux in the early ’90s.
The location – all pink bougainvillaea exploding over white stucco walls, fishing boats bobbing in a picturesque harbour and impossibly quaint al fresco restaurants – was Paros, which is less than an hour by boat from the party capital of Mykonos , yet worlds away from its flashy Cycladic neighbour, home to the €150 daybed and the €40 crab leg . Thirty plus years on from when the show was set, Paros is now home to lots more luxury hotels, but it still has all of the rustic charm that lured holidaymakers such as Truman Capote and Vogue photographer Cecil Beaton in the past. The small boutique property Andronis Minois , on the east of the island, offers both: the low-rise building mirrors traditional Cycladic architecture, but with a sleek and contemporary finish, all fresh white interiors with splashes of ocean blue and .