Erimitis, the hermit's cliffs

On the west side of Paxos the gentle olive country ends suddenly at a wall of white limestone. At Erimitis, below the hamlets around Magazia, the cliffs drop sheer into deep blue water, and in the evening the whole face turns gold and then pink as the sun sets straight ahead over the open Ionian. The name means 'the hermit', and even with a sunset bar on the clifftop the place keeps something of that solitude. The small beach that once lay below was largely swept away by a landslide, so this is a place for looking, not for swimming.