Lakoma, the village on the road to the sand

Lakoma is a quiet farming village on the sunny southern slopes of Mount Saos, surrounded by olive groves, gardens and goat farms, with a plane tree shading its small square. It sits on the road to Pachia Ammos, so most visitors pass through on the way to the beach, but it is worth stopping: for the village kafeneio and its mezedes, the island's cheese and olive oil, a summer feast day, and the long, empty beaches below it at Lakoma and Makrylies.