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The claim in the title of this article is a strong one, and it deserves the direct and honest substantiation that a strong claim requires. Corfu in October is better...
The olive trees that surround Kapella Apartments are in October doing something that the casual observer of the summer months might not immediately distinguish from what they have been doing...
Every place has its story, and some places have stories more dramatic and more instructive than others about the forces that the tourist economy exerts on the communities it reaches....
There is a category of place that travel writing consistently underserves: the place that is excellent not because of a single dramatic feature or a celebrated attraction but because of...
The road from Paleokastritsa climbs steeply from the coastal settlement, switchbacking up the limestone ridge that separates the bay from the agricultural interior of the island’s northwest, and at each...
The question that October visitors to Corfu most frequently ask before their departure is the same question that their friends and family ask on their behalf with varying degrees of...
Every season has its last day, and the last day at Kapella Apartments arrives at the end of October with the particular quality of a conclusion that the preceding months...
October arrives at Kapella Apartments with the particular quality of a month that has nothing to prove and everything to offer. The summer season has concluded its main programme. The...
Corfu is not a single place. It is, like most islands of any significant size and history, a collection of places that share a geography and a name but that...