Family /group house and garden with large patio, close to town and best beach!

A Typical Day at Lorraines
Morning – Breakfast in the Garden
The day starts slowly, the way holidays should.

No alarm. Just the sun creeping higher over the garden wall and someone padding to the kitchen to put the kettle on. Eventually, someone volunteers to make the short stroll around the corner to Vidalis Bakery.
They return in ten minutes with a paper bag already translucent with warmth. Inside: golden, flaky cheese pies (tyropita) still steaming from the oven; a few sesame bread rings (koulouri); and a small box of buttery cookies or baklava for those who prefer something sweet with their coffee.
You carry everything out to the garden — the wooden table, the comfy directors chairs, the marble floor still cool in the morning shade. Someone pours the coffee. Another tears open the bag. The first bite of warm cheese pie, salty and crisp, while the garden smells of the lemon and orange trees and flowers that surround the patio
There's no plan for another hour. Just breakfast in the garden, good company, and time slowing down just for you.

Late Morning – Volax
After breakfast, you gather sunglasses and water for a short drive inland to Volax — a landscape that feels otherworldly. Huge, rounded granite boulders are scattered across the plateau like giants' marbles. The whitewashed village sits quietly in the middle, with its tiny church and traditional houses. You wander between the rocks, kids climbing the lower boulders, breathing in thyme-scented air. It's lunar, peaceful, unforgettable.

Midday – Kolimbithra Beach
From the lunar landscape to one of the island's most beautiful coves. Kolimbithra is a natural fjord-like swimming spot, sheltered by steep rocky cliffs. The water is impossibly clear — deep teal in the centre, turquoise near the shore. You dive in. You float on your back, looking up at pine trees clinging to the cliffs. Kids snorkel around the edges. An hour becomes two. On North wind days you watch surfers and kids play in the waves on the big beach or play football on the more sheltered side No one checks their phone.

Early Afternoon – Return, Shower, and Rest
Back at the house, cool showers wash away the salt and sunscreen. A lazy hour indoors — maybe a siesta, maybe a card game, maybe reading while the air conditioning hums. Tired, happy limbs from swimming.

Evening – Gyros in Town
As the sun softens, you head down into the main town. The evening air is warm but gentle. You find a souvlaki place — a spit of pork turning slowly, the smell drifting into the street. You order two or three to share, plus tzatziki and cold beer. Gyros come wrapped in warm pita, stuffed with tomato, onion, parsley, and spicy sauce. You eat at a small outdoor table, grease dripping onto paper. Casual. Perfect.

After Dinner – Two Ways
For families: The seafront playground awaits. A large, proper playground right by the water's edge — climbing frames, slides, swings. Kids disappear into it, making new friends within minutes. You settle at a nearby café-bar, cocktails in hand — Aperol spritz, mojito, local wine. You watch the kids swing higher against the pink-and-orange sky. Boats bob in the harbour. The sea laps gently. No one wants to leave.

For the youngsters (or young at heart): The night is just getting started. Head toward the famous beach clubs and open-air venues along the coast — places where world-renowned DJs spin from May through September. Dance sand-between-toes at a beach club with a Funktion-One system and a visiting DJ from Berlin or Ibiza. Later, try an open-air forest club under fairy lights and pine trees, a famous Greek DJ playing a vinyl set. Or a sleek rooftop overlooking the Aegean, deep-tech from a London DJ, prosecco sweating between you. Dance until 2 or 3 a.m., then walk back through the quiet harbour to the house. The garden is silent. The sea is a whisper.

Lorraine's Little Extras – Making It Easy
Your host Lorraine knows Tinos inside out. She can arrange car rental from one of the best — and one of the very first — rental companies on the island, at a reasonable price, with no hidden stress. Just reliable wheels to explore every corner.
If you prefer not to drive, Lorraine also provides a clear, up-to-date bus timetable, so you can hop between villages and beaches with ease.

The Don't-Miss Experience – A Panayiri
And finally, if you're lucky enough to be here during summer, do not leave without experiencing a Panayiri.
These are the famous village festivals held in honour of a saint — one nearly every night in July and August, rotating through Tinos's unique villages. There's food, wine, live music, and dancing that goes until sunrise. Locals and visitors fill the village square, long tables groaning with roasted meat, cheese, bread, and wine. A live band plays traditional Greek music — violins, lutes, clarinets. Then someone starts a circle dance. Then everyone joins. You don't need to know the steps. You just hold hands and move. Old men dance next to toddlers. Teenagers spin each other. You drink local tsipouro. You eat lamb from a spit. You laugh with strangers who become friends.

It's not a tourist show. It's the real Tinos. And it will be one of the best nights of your life.

Goodnight
By midnight — or 3 a.m., depending on you — you find your way back to the house. The garden is quiet. The beds are cool. And tomorrow, you'll do it all over again. Starting with those cheese pies from Vidalis.