Lesbos (known locally as "Lesvos"), the third largest of all Greek islands, is also one of the least developed, which represents mostly good, with just a dollop of bad news for visitors. The island is beautiful and largely untouched, and offers visitors a timeless glimpse of real Greece that is quickly disappearing from some other Hellenic destinations: vast, unspoiled beaches, villages lost in time, splendidly simple cuisine and groves of ancient olive trees.