This will be only a small dent, perhaps, to the confidence of Greek tour operators, who say arrivals are slightly up this year, albeit not as much as in destinations like Turkey and Cyprus.

Take the example of Cyprus: as it became a more popular tourist destination farmers made vast sums selling their land to developers who then built often ugly villas in piecemeal fashion.

From the car park, we followed a coach load of visitors to the Baths of Aphrodite, where Cyprus's most famous goddess met her lover, Adonis.